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Black protest and the great migration : a brief history with documents /

Title:
Black protest and the great migration : a brief history with documents /
Author:
Arnesen, Eric.
Published:
Boston : ©2003.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College, Emerson College
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction: "The Great American protest" -- Origins of the Great Migration -- Wartime opportunities in the North -- The Promised land? -- Wartime Black leaders, the New Negro, and grassroots politics -- Racial violence and the postwar reaction to Black activism -- Consequences of the Migration -- pt. 2. The Documents -- The Great Migration begins -- Why they left: conditions in the South -- White Southerners respond to the Migration -- Southern Black's warnings about Migration -- Letters from Migrants -- The Promised land? -- "The Truth about the North" -- The East St. Louis riot -- The Evolution of Black politics -- Patriotism and military service -- The Emergence of the New Negro during and after the war -- Black women, protest, and the Suffrage -- Black workers and the wartime home front -- Black men and the labor question -- Black women and the war -- Opportunities and obstacles in the postwar era -- An Uncertain future -- 1919 riots -- The Elaine Massacre -- Postwar migration -- Heading South? or Coming North? -- Building a new life in the North -- The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
E185.6 .A76 2003 – Available
Emmanuel Main Stacks
E185.6 .A76 2003 – Available