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North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

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Availability:In StockContributor:Blake GumprechtPublish date:2023-04-21Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197614440ISBN-10:197614442UPC:9780197614440Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Reference, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genealogy & HeraldrySize:8.80 x 6.40 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC1AMR9AEX

North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject. Blake Gumprecht traces the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197614440ISBN-10:197614442UPC:9780197614440Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Reference, HistoryBook Subcategory:Genealogy & HeraldrySize:8.80 x 6.40 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC1AMR9AEX
Blake Gumprecht taught geography for more than two decades at the University of New Hampshire, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of two previous books, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth and The American College Town, both of which won the American Association of Geographers' J. B. Jackson Prize. He now lives and writes in...
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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