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A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books
on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter
Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,
premodern folk, ''utterly unprepared'' for the complexities of urban life.
African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting
old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape
even as it transformed them. -- James Campbell, Northwestern University
Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to
the fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history. --
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Georgia Historical Quarterly
Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary and
secondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important part
of the Great Migration that followed World War I. -- George Lipsitz,

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1996
      ISBN13: 9780252066177, 978-0252066177
      ISBN10: 0252066170
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books
      on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter
      Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,
      premodern folk, ''utterly unprepared'' for the complexities of urban life.
      African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting
      old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape
      even as it transformed them. -- James Campbell, Northwestern University
      Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to
      the fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history. --
      Howard N. Rabinowitz, Georgia Historical Quarterly
      Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary and
      secondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important part
      of the Great Migration that followed World War I. -- George Lipsitz,

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