The Other Great Migration

preview-18
  • The Other Great Migration Book Detail

  • Author : Bernadette Pruitt
  • Release Date : 2013-10-24
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 482
  • ISBN 13 : 1603449485
  • File Size : 12,12 MB

The Other Great Migration by Bernadette Pruitt PDF Summary

Book Description: The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Other Great Migration books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Other Great Migration

The Other Great Migration

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 8392 Views
DOWNLOAD

The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Warmth of Other Suns

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 622 Views
DOWNLOAD

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling

The Southern Diaspora

The Southern Diaspora

File Size : 78,78 MB
Total View : 7239 Views
DOWNLOAD

Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

Great Migrations

Great Migrations

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 2190 Views
DOWNLOAD

An illustrated companion to the seven-hour National Geographic Channel special miniseries of the same title. It includes 250 breathtaking photos and describes a

China's Great Migration

China's Great Migration

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 8590 Views
DOWNLOAD

China's rise over the past several decades has lifted more than half of its population out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. What has caused this dram