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The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941
- Title
- The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 / Bernadette Pruitt.
- Author
- Pruitt, Bernadette, 1965-
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 453 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 21
- Uniform Title
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 21.
- Subjects
- Rural-urban migration > Texas > Houston > History > 20th century
- Black author
- Migration, Internal > Texas > Houston > History > 20th century
- Houston (Tex.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Texas > Houston > Migrations > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Texas > Houston > Social conditions > 20th century
- Community development > Texas > Houston > History > 20th century
- Houston (Tex.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-429) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-539
- ISBN
- 9781603449489 (book/cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603449485 (book/cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781623490034 (ebook format/all ebooks)
- 1623490030 (ebook format/all ebooks)
- LCCN
- 2013017813
- OCLC
- 843454927
- Author
- Pruitt, Bernadette, 1965- author.
- Title
- The other great migration : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 / Bernadette Pruitt.
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2013]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 21Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 21.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-429) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-539