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03861aam a22003254a 4500 001 FAD313F612F711E4A193BF90DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230114020400 008 110818s2012 miua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2011033540 020 $a 0780811860 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780780811867 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)747947280 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d GVA $d IK2 $d BWX $d BDX $d CDX $d VP@ $d IG# $d GZI $d OCLCF $d MJO $d IOJ $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Harris, Laurie Lanzen. 245 14 $a The great migration north, 1910-1970 / $c by Laurie Lanzen Harris. 260 $a Detroit, MI : $b Omnigraphics, Inc., $c 2012. 300 $a xvi, 241 p. : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Defining moments 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-232) and index. 505 00 $g Primary sources -- $t The Chicago Defender reports on lynchings in the Jim Crow South -- The massacre of East St. Louis -- The Chicago race riot of 1919 -- African Americans praise life in the North -- Langston Hughes remembers the Harlem Renaissance -- President Roosevelt signs the Fair Employment Act -- An eyewitness account of the 1943 race riot in Detroit -- President Truman integrates the American military -- An African-American migrant builds a new life in the North -- The Kerner report analyzes the root causes of racial tensions in America -- Reasons for the "return migration" to the South -- The great migration and its enduring impact on America. $g Biographies -- $t Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940): newspaper publisher, founder, and editor of the Chicago Defender -- Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955): educator and civil rights activist -- Tom Bradley (1917-1998): politician and first black mayor of Los Angeles -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963): scholar, historian, and civil rights leader -- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940): Jamaican black nationalist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967): poet, short story writer, and playwright of the Harlem Renaissance -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968): civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000): creator of The Migration and other artistic works about the African-American experience -- A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979): labor and civil rights leader -- Malcolm X (1925-1965): political and religious leader and civil rights activist -- $g Primary sources -- $t The Chicago Defender reports on lynchings in the Jim Crow South -- The massacre of East St. Louis -- The Chicago race riot of 1919 -- African Americans praise life in the North -- Langston Hughes remembers the Harlem Renaissance -- President Roosevelt signs the Fair Employment Act -- An eyewitness account of the 1943 race riot in Detroit -- President Truman integrates the American military -- An African-American migrant builds a new life in the North -- The Kerner report analyzes the root causes of racial tensions in America -- Reasons for the "return migration" to the South -- The great migration and its enduring impact on America. 520 $a "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. 830 0 $a Defining moments. 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718090650.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508020236.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203035916.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150514025206.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FAD313F612F711E4A193BF90DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search