North to Boston, life histories from the Black Great Migration in New England, Blake Gumprecht
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North to Boston, life histories from the Black Great Migration in New England, Blake Gumprecht
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
North to Boston
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
bibliographydictionaries
Responsibility statement
Blake Gumprecht
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
life histories from the Black Great Migration in New England
Summary
'North to Boston' tells the life histories of ten Black individuals who moved from the southern United States to Boston, Massachusetts, during the Great Migration. Based on extensive oral history interviews and a creative narrative structure, Gumprecht illuminates this singularly important event in the making of Boston as it exists today.--, Provided by publisher
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Subject
- Migration, Internal -- New England -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
- Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography
- Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject6
- Migration, Internal -- New England -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
- Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church (Boston, Mass.) -- Biography
- Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography