rural-urban migration

"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.

"A collection of . . . stories drawn on the front lines of migration by . . . artist George Butler. For thousands of years humans have moved around the world, to seek a better life, to flee disaster or to escape war. Migration is a fact of life but it is hugely misunderstood . . . Butler introduces us to the people behind the headlines. Drawings made on front lines, in refugee camps and on the move . . . capture stories of leaving home, travelling into the unknown and trying to make a new life. These . . . portraits of migration are a timely reminder of the humanity we all share and our universal need to seek safety and a better life"--OCLC.

"A . . . cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America"--OCLC.

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s.

Follows an African-American family as they migrate from the South to New York after their father is falsely accused of stealing money from his boss.

Contains a collection of documents from newspapers, journals, periodicals, and trade publication from the North and the South on issues of African American protest and migration between 1915 and 1918 following the economic depression in the South after World War One.

Between the early 1940s and the late 1960s, over five million rural southern blacks streamed into the big cities of the North. The human migration altered the fabric of American society, turning race relations into a national issue.

Follows an African-American family as they migrate from the South to New York after their father is falsely accused of stealing money from his boss.