Making a way out of no way : African American women and the second great migration

Making a way out of no way : African American women and the second great migration / Lisa Krissoff Boehm.

Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives. In extended excerpts from the oral histories, a...

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Main Author: Boehm, Lisa Krissoff, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009.
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American women > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
African American women > Biography.
Oral history > United States.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Table of contents

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