Wandering in strange lands : a daughter of the Great Migration reclaims her roots /

Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. This event transformed the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, but also di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jerkins, Morgan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The milkman's baby
  • Lowcountry, Georgia, and South Carolina
  • Louisiana Creole
  • Oklahoma
  • Los Angeles
  • Epilogue.