Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration

The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration is about the movement of African Americans from the south of the USA to the urban North and Far West of the country over the course of the twentieth century, and set in the social, economic, cultural and political contexts. Numerous reference works have been published recently on US African American history, a large number by Greenwood Press themselves, but the focus here is on the great migration, “thus each entry, instead of offering general information easily accessible in other fine reference works, situates its topics within the context of black migration and...