Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
Contents:
Moving North -- Legal discrimination -- Time for change -- Separate but equal -- Ku Klux Klan -- Lynching -- Booker T. Washington -- African American publications -- Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- The work of the NAACP -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Chicago : the top destination -- Race riots -- Harlem : a place for a renaissance -- Discrimination in workplaces -- A new home for migrants -- Military service and the world wars -- Early stages of the civil rights movement -- A victory in the fight for rights.
Summary:
Explores the time period from 1916-1970 in which substantial numbers of Africans Americans moved from the southern states to the northern states to avoid the blatant segregation and discrimination in the South.
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