Up South : stories, studies, and letters of this century's Black migrations / edited by Malaika Adero.

Other author Adero, Malaika, 1957-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1993.
Descriptionxx, 216 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Bound No'th Blues / Langston Hughes -- Letter to the Editor of the Evening Post / William Pickens -- An Editorial / Dallas Express -- A Century of Negro Migration (Excerpt) / Carter G. Woodson -- Federal Authorities Cannot Stop Northern Migration / (unknown) -- An Editorial / Chicago Defender -- Causes of the Migration from the Viewpoint of the Northern Negro / R.R. Wright -- A Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Globe / Arthur G. Shaw -- The Recent Northward Migration of the Negro / Joseph A. Hill -- The Ritual of Survival / Robert Fleming -- How Much Is the Migration a Flight from Persecution / Charles S. Johnson -- Why They Come North / C. Otis -- Housing the Migrants / Opportunity -- Migration / W.J. Latham -- On Labor Agents / Emmett J. Scott -- A Letter from Montgomery, Alabama / (unknown) -- A Letter from Rome, Georgia / (unknown) -- A Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- Another Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- A Letter (1916) / (unknown).
Contents Two Articles / Chicago Defender News Service -- A Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- A Letter to the Editor of the Newark Evening News / Hamilton Travis -- The Migration: A Northern View / Emmett J. Scott -- A Letter from Augusta, Georgia / (unknown) -- A Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- A Letter from Memphis / (unknown) -- Dust Tracks of a Road (Excerpt) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Negro Migration: Its Effect on Family and Community Life in the North / George E. Haynes -- Negro Migration in New York State / Eugene Kinckle Jones -- An Editorial / Journal and Guide -- An Editorial / Atlanta Independent -- Rememory: What There Is for Us / Jacqueline Joan Johnson -- The Problems of the City Dweller / Mary Mcleod Bethune -- A Letter from Augusta, Georgia / Chicago Defender -- A Letter from Miami / Chicago Defender -- A Letter / Chicago Defender -- A Letter from Kissimmee, Florida / Chicago Defender -- A Letter from Atlanta / Chicago Defender -- A Letter from Savannah / Chicago Defender.
Contents A Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- American Hunger (Excerpt) / Richard Wright -- A Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- Another Letter from New Orleans / (unknown) -- A Letter from Lapne, Alabama / (unknown) -- A Letter from Greenville, Mississippi / (unknown) -- Another Letter from Greenville, Mississippi / (unknown) -- An Editorial / Southern Standard -- An Editorial / Fort Worth Record -- Long Distance Life (Excerpt) / Marita Golden -- A Northerner's View of the Negro Problem / Arthur C. Holden -- Migration Again / T. Arnold Hill -- A Letter to the Editor of the Dallas Express / Frank D. Dixon -- Going East / Cynthia Simmons -- The Migration: A Southern View / George J. Baldwin -- The Invisible Man (Excerpt) / Ralph Ellison -- The Alley / Peggy Dye -- An Editorial / Birmingham Weekly Voice -- The Exodus Train / Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy -- One-Way Ticket / Langston Hughes.
Abstract Perhaps the greatest migration in America's history is the movement of African Americans from the southern states to the urban Northeast and Midwest during the first half of this century. Motivated by racial violence and a failing economy in the South, this legendary exodus has informed the work of some of the greatest black writers, including Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Mary McLeod Bethune, and W.E.B. DuBois. Never before, however, has the totality of this pivotal black experience been captured in a single volume. Up South gathers a vast range of documents and photographs - from letters and turn-of-the-century items in the Chicago Defender, Crisis, and Opportunity, to scholarly research and selections from some of the finest American literary writing, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as Wright, DuBois, and Bontemps.
Summary Malaika Adero has selected and introduced these works in a way that highlights the scope and drama of the watershed "exodus up south" A unique resource for students and teachers of urban and American studies, this volume is also a moving and eye-opening anthology of African American literature, scholarship, and journalism from the first half of this century--Jacket.
Local noteJoyner Rare copy ncludes dust jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (page 217).
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy Gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Genre/formFiction.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 92053733
ISBN1565840208 (hc)
ISBN9781565840201 (hc)
ISBN1565841689
ISBN9781565841680

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