Publication | Closed Access
The promised land: the great Black migration and how it changed America
433
Citations
0
References
1991
Year
Human MigrationEthnicityColonialismEducationRacial StudyBlack ExperienceAfrican American HistorySocial SciencesGreat Black MigrationRaceForced MigrationSettler ColonialismAfrican American StudiesDescendant CommunitiesDisplacement StudiesRural SouthPromised LandAfrican American SlaveryAnthropologyRace RelationPopulation MovementUrban North
An examination of the great black migration and how it changed America. The author points out that the 20th-century migration of five million people from the rural South to the urban North changed America into a place where race relations affected the texture of life everywhere.