The great migration

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Shally-Jensen, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Grey House Publishing, [2022]
Series:Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
Subjects:
1900-2099
Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970 > Sources.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > Sources.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century > Sources.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century > Sources.
Civil rights > United States > History > 21st century > Sources.
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Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. Publisher's note
  • Editor's introduction
  • Contributors
  • The first wave of migration in context
  • Guinn v. United States
  • The East St. Louis Riot and congressional investigation
  • Negro migration in 1916-1917
  • The Black migrant: housing and employment
  • No Negroes allowed
  • Chicago race riots
  • "The opportunity of Negro labor"
  • "If we must die"
  • NAACP: thirty years of lynching in the United States
  • Elaine, Arkansas, massacre commemoration
  • "Redlining" map of Syracuse, New York
  • "The eruption of Tulsa"
  • Marcus Garvey on "Back to Africa"
  • The Klansman's manual
  • The "New Negro"
  • "The Negro artist and the racial mountain"
  • From Race relations: adjustments of whites and Negroes in the United States
  • "A Black inventory of the New Deal"
  • Plea from a Scottsboro boy
  • The second wave of migration in context
  • The Negro motorist green book
  • Executive order 8802: Fair employment practice in defense industries
  • From Dust tracks on a road
  • Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
  • Jackie Robinson breaks the color code in baseball
  • Report of the President's Committee on civil rights
  • Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
  • Executive order 9981
  • From Invisible man
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Memo regarding the Emmett Till murder
  • Cooper v. Aaron
  • Volume 2. The second wave of migration in context
  • George Wallace: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever"
  • FBI documents relating to 16th Street Church bombing
  • Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
  • Speech before Congress on voting rights
  • President's remarks on the launching of Project Head Start
  • The Watts Riot considered
  • From Manchild in the promised land
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)
  • Internal migration statistics, 1870-1970
  • Postmigration decades
  • Shirley Chisholm: "The Black woman in contemporary America"
  • Boston busing case: Morgan v. Hennigan
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  • Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention
  • City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.
  • Rodney King case
  • Shaw v. Reno
  • Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña
  • Foreclosure in the nation's capital: how unfair and reckless lending undermines homeownership
  • Shelby County v. Holder
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Ferguson, Missouri, Unrest
  • Angela Davis: women's march on Washington
  • Barack Obama's "A more perfect union" speech
  • COVID-19 brings health disparities research to the forefront
  • Eulogy at George Floyd's memorial service
  • Opening statement on slavery reparations before the House Judiciary Committee.

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