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A movement in every direction : a Great Migration critical reader /
This thoughtful interweaving of text and imagery presents a variety of perspectives on the Great Migration (1915-70), the mass exodus and dispersion of millions of African Americans out of the South. Through archival photography, newspaper clippings, maps, journal articles, book excerpts, and epheme...
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Baltimore, MD : Jackson, MS : New Haven :
Baltimore Museum of Art ; Mississippi Museum of Art ; in association with Yale University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Directors' Foreword / Christopher Bedford and Betsy Bradley
- Introduction / Jessica Bell Brown and Ryan N. Dennis
- I. Between Town and Metropolis : The Great Migration and the American City. "A Review of the Year of 1918," 1918 ; Blyden Jackson, introduction to Black Exodus : The Great Migration from the American South, 1991 ; "Race Labor Leaving," 1916 ; "Big Exodus of Negroes," 1916 ; Philip Dray, excerpts from Capitol Men : The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen, 2008 ; "The Negro in Local Politics," 1903 ; "The Negro and Politics," 1899 ; Ralph W. Tyler, "Jackson an Oasis in the Desert of the South," 1914 ; "Negro Doctors in Miss. Since Reconstruction," and "Negro Lawyers in Mississippi Since Reconstuction," 1963 ; "Escaping Slaves," 1916 ; Letter from H.L. Remmel to Henry C. Wallace, 1923 ; "Some Problems of Migration," 1923 ; William O. Scroggs, "Interstate Migration of Negro Population," 1917 ; "Bricks Hurled Through Church Window in Md.," 1925 ; "The Tulsa Riots," 1921 ; "Negro Land-Owners," 1884 ; "Churches Lead Hate Crusade," 1945 ; '"Hundreds Buy Own Homes Under Plan," 1950 ; Thomas H. Ringgold, "Ringgold's Store a Mecca for Many Maryland Notables," 1932 ; "Checking Migration," 1919 ; Vann R. Newkirk II, "The Great Land Robbery," 2019 ; Mississippi Power Company, "The More Abundant Life : Open Letter to Mississippians," 1958 ; W.O. Saunders, "Why Jim Crow is Flying North," 1923 ; Lue Ella Pennington, excerpt from "The Outer Pocket," 1924 ; David Ward Howe, "The Observation Post : White Southerners Now Moving North," 1939 ; "White House, Biddle Deny Plan To Restrict Migration," 1943 ; Edward L. Ayers, excerpts from Southern Journey : The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020, 2020 ; W E.B. Du Bois, excerpts from The Philadelphia Negro : A Social Study, 1889 ; Gene Reid, "Study Finds Lung Cancer High in Black Migrants," 1975 ; "Lost in Migration," 1924 ; "When You Come North," 1925 ; "South Now Trying to Stop Migration by Legislation," 1927 ; "40,000 to Baltimore," 1963 ; "Migration Costs State Over 400,000," 1961 ; "Plants Must Hire Negroes, Manpower Chief Says," 1942 ; "South Hurt by Labor Shortage," 1923 ; "Most Negroes Per Sq. Mile in D.C.," 1926 ; "Basically Colored Counties Drop to 180 with Migration," 1945 ; St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Clayton, excerpts from Black Metropolis : A Study of Negro Life in a Northern, 1945 ; "3rd of Negoes Going to Chicago Are from State," 1962 ; Charles Leavelle, "Green Pastures of WPA Entice Negroes to City," 1938 ; Bernadette Pruitt, "In Search of Freedom : Black Migration to Houston, 1914-1945," 2005 ; "The Year 1943," 1944 ; "Exodus : 1960 Style," 1962 ; Dennis Wrong, "Portrait of a Decade : what the census will show about us in the turbulent sixties," 1970 ; Isabel Wilkerson, "The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration," 2016
- II. A Morsel, A Memory, A Feast : Lasting Legacies of Black Southern Foodways. Frederick Douglass Opie, excerpt from Hog and Hominy : Soul Food from Africa to America, 2008 ; Francis Lam, "Edna Lewis and the Black Roots of American Cooking," 2015 ; Jennifer Jensen Wallach, excerpt from Every Nation Has lts Dish : Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Centum America, 2019 ; Toni Tipton-Martin, excerpt from The Jemima Code : Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, 2015 ; Jessica B. Harris, "Migration Meals : How African American Food Transformed the Taste of America," 2021 ; Shakti Baum, Miss Mary, Sweet Honey, and the Cornbread / Griddled Sweet Com Cake with Tarragon and Honey Butter ; Nick Wallace, Braised Pig Cheek with Fresh Micro Carrots, Morel Mushrooms, and Peewee Potatoes ; Enrika Williams, Ham, the Way Aunt Tina Told Me ; Krystal C. Mack, Not My Mama's Potato Salad
- III. Finding Sanctuary in Ourselves : Cultural Expressions of the Great Migration. Judith Weisenfeld, excerpts from New World A-Coming : Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, 2018 ; Jean Toomer, selected poems from Cane, 1923 ; Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., excerpt from the afterword to Cane by Jean Toomer, 2011 ; Langston Hughes, "Afraid," 1924 ; S.W. Henry, "Black Satin," 1926 ; Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son," 1924 ; Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-Woman," 1925 ; Leslie King-Hammond, excerpt from Over the Line, the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, 2001 ; Lowery Stokes Sims, excerpt from Challenge of the Modern : African-American Artists, 1925-1945, 2003 ; Farah Jasmine Griffin, excerpt from "Who Set You Flowin'?" : The Great Migration Narrative, 1996 ; Sandra G. Shannon, "A Transplant That Did Not Take : August Wilson's Views on the Great Migration," 1997 ; Nicole R. Fleetwood, excerpt from Troubling Vision : Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, 2010 ; LeRoi Jones, excerpts from Blues People : The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed From It, 1963 ; Bernice White, "It's NOT a Man's World," 1970
- Roundtable.