 AfricanAmericans from the rural South to the cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Since smaller suburban communities refused to permit the construction of public housing, the units were overwhelmingly concentrated in the overcrowded and deteriorating...  American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto - Page xby Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh - 2000 - 332 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | George M. Fredrickson - History - 1981 - 386 pages
...relations in the economic sphere was the North during the early stages of the great black migration from the rural South to the cities of the Northeast and Midwest that began after the turn of the century. Faced with worsening economic conditions and a rising tide... | |
 | Hans A. Baer, Yvonne Jones - Social Science - 1992 - 197 pages
...political economy of the United States coupled with the onset of World War I resulted in the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and, to a lesser degree, to the cities of the South. The process of urbanization that accompanies... | |
 | Hans A. Baer, Yvonne Jones - Social Science - 1992 - 197 pages
...political economy of the United States coupled with the onset of World War I resulted in the massive migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and, to a lesser degree, to the cities of the South. The process of urbanization that accompanies... | |
 | Bret E. Carroll - History - 2000 - 148 pages
...population in cities and Southern srates, in percent of increase, 1910-20 African Americans migrating from the rural South to the cities of the Northeast and Midwest to escape economic hardship and racial discrimination found more of both. They sought personal wholeness,... | |
 | Janet Zandy - Business & Economics - 2001 - 358 pages
...York City. (CG) Gandy Dancers, 1994: black railroad workers. (CG) Coin' to Chicago, 1994: the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West. (CN) The Golden Cage: A Story of California's Farmworkers, 1989: a history of the United... | |
 | Michael J. Meyer - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...national audience thanks to the record industry, which saw a vast market for "race records" with the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North. In the mid,I92()s, the blues craze reached its peak, as Bessie Smith, known as "the Empress... | |
 | Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer - History - 2002 - 356 pages
...messianic-nationalist sects, the growth of the Spiritual churches was in large part related to the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of both the North and the South. Most Spiritual churches are quite small and are situated in storefronts... | |
 | Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude - Religion - 2003 - 1084 pages
...messianic-nationalist sects, the growth of the Spiritual churches was in large part related to the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of both the North and the South. Most Spiritual churches are quite small and are situated in storefronts... | |
 | Elliott J. Gorn, Warren Goldstein - History - 2004 - 312 pages
...Great Experiment. It represents the intersection of such large-scale historical forces as the "great migration" of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, and the conflagration of World War II, with the aspirations of two extraordinary individuals,... | |
 | Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...established the first American branch of the UNIA and began publishing a weekly newspaper, the Negro World The mass migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and Midwest provided Garvey with a blue-collar constituency that rejected the middle-class... | |
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