Way up North in Louisville African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970 |
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| Author:
| Adams, Luther |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3422-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $78.75 |
Book Description:
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In the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Adams offers a powerful reinterpretation of the modern civil rights movement and of the transformations in black urban life within the contexts of migration, work, and urban renewal. While acknowledging the destructive downside of emerging post-industrialism for African Americans...
More DescriptionIn the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Adams offers a powerful reinterpretation of the modern civil rights movement and of the transformations in black urban life within the contexts of migration, work, and urban renewal. While acknowledging the destructive downside of emerging post-industrialism for African Americans in the Jim Crow South, Adams concludes that persistent patterns of economic and racial inequality did not rob black people of their capacity to act in their own interests.