Harris, Laurie Lanzen.
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, Inc., 2012.
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Part of the series Defining moments;Defining moments.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.
• Provides a comprehensive overview of the movement of millions of African Americans out of the South during the twentieth century, including the political, social, and economic factors that drove their migration. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index –Provided by publisher.
• Narrative overview. Becoming African American — The first great migration — The second great migration — The civil rights movement — The return migration — The legacy of the great migration — Biographies. Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940): newspaper publisher, founder, and editor of the Chicago Defender — Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955): educator and civil rights activist — Tom Bradley (1917-1998): politician and first black mayor of Los Angeles — W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963): scholar, historian, and civil rights leader — Marcus Garvey (1887-1940): Jamaican black nationalist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association — Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun — Langston Hughes (1902-1967): poet, short story writer, and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968): civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) — Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000): creator of The Migration and other artistic works about the African-American experience — A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979): labor and civil rights leader — Malcolm X (1925-1965): political and religious leader and civil rights activist — Primary sources. The Chicago Defender reports on lynchings in the Jim Crow South — The massacre of East St. Louis — The Chicago race riot of 1919 — African Americans praise life in the North — Langston Hughes remembers the Harlem Renaissance — President Roosevelt signs the Fair Employment Act — An eyewitness account of the 1943 race riot in Detroit — President Truman integrates the American military — An African-American migrant builds a new life in the North — The Kerner report analyzes the root causes of racial tensions in America — Reasons for the return migration to the South — The great migration and its enduring impact on America.

Subjects:

• African Americans — Migrations — History — 20th century.
• Rural-urban migration — United States — History — 20th century.

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