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Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919
Christopher R. Reed
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago’s South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916–1918, effectively doubling Chicago’s African American population. Those already residing in Chicago’s black neighbourhoods had a lot in common with those who migrated, Reed demonstrates, and the two groups ... Read more
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago’s South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916–1918, effectively doubling Chicago’s African American population. Those already residing in Chicago’s black neighbourhoods had a lot in common with those who migrated, Reed demonstrates, and the two groups ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
722g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809333332
SKU
V9780809333332
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About Christopher R. Reed
Christopher Robert Reed is professor emeritus of history and a former director of the St. Clair Drake Centre for African and African American Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the author of five books, including The Depression Comes to Chicago’s South Side: Protest and Politics, 1930–1933 and The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.
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