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The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941
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- Creator
- Bernadette Pruitt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1623490030, 1603449485, 1461949467, 1623496098, 9781461949466, 9781623490034, 1306070570, 9781603449489, 9781623496098
- OCLC
- ocn862077736, ocn862049740, ocn843454927
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pulling up the stakes: the great migration to Houston, 1900-1930 -- Building a city: migrant settlements in Houston, 1900-1941 -- Beautiful people: agency in Houston, 1900-1941 -- "That was their protection and safeguard": Houston's "new Negro," 1917-1941 -- In "the Garden of Eden": the Houston Renaissance, 1900-1941 -- The black economy at work: wage earners, professionals, economic crisis, and the origins of the second great migration, 1900-1941
Subjects
- African Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
- Rural-urban migration -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century.
- Migration, Internal -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Community development -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century.
- Houston (Tex.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.