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Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations
The Great Migration—the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century—shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that inspired African Americans to abandon the South for freedom and opportunity elsewhere.
Black Southerners fled the Low Country of South...more
Black Southerners fled the Low Country of South...more
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published
June 2nd 2010
by The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Written by two good friends, the book tells of the migration of African Americans from specific areas of the South to the North and West and how traditions, music, beliefs brought from Africa were transported, adapted and became part of the larger American culture. Much information presented well.
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