Knock at the Door of Opportunity :: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919.

Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Ch...

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1. Verfasser: Reed, Christopher Robert
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916-1918, effectively doubling Chicago's African American population. Those already residing in Chicago's black neighborhoods.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (410 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780809333349
0809333341
1306875668
9781306875660
9780809333332
0809333333

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