Blake Gumprecht

North to Boston (eBook, ePUB)

Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject. Blake Gumprecht traces the history of this migration and explores its impacts in greater depth through the lives of ten individuals, each the subject of one chapter. Those chapters are short biographies based on extensive interviews by the author and are told in an engaging style that reflects the author's background as a journalist. The ten people featured came from six southern states. They fled racism, limited opportunity, and hopelessness, and moved north in pursuit of better jobs, equal treatment, and greater freedom. They settled in neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. They worked as teachers, factory workers, welders, and security guards. Their stories are emblematic of the experiences of Black people everywhere who left the South, and provide a rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary people living in one city's Black community. North to Boston brings to life the history of the Great Migration, revealing a hidden aspect of New England's history and shining a spotlight on a singularly important event in the making of Black Boston.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197614464
• Artikelnr.: 67808034

Autorenporträt

Blake Gumprecht taught geography for more than two decades at the University of New Hampshire, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of two previous books, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth and The American College Town, both of which won the American Association of Geographers' J. B. Jackson Prize. He now lives and writes in El Paso, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * 1. The Great Migration in New England * 2. Charles Gordon
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
1943 * 3. Thomas Lindsay
Birmingham
Alabama
1951 * 4. Lucy Parham
Morven
North Carolina
1957 * 5. Ollie Sumrall Jr.
Quitman
Mississippi
1959 * 6. Elizabeth Hall Davis
Columbia
South Carolina
1963 * 7. Willie Pittman
Shady Grove
Alabama
1963 * 8. Geraldine Walker
Clay County
Alabama
1963 * 9. Barbra Hicks
Bradford
Alabama
1964 * 10. Al Kinnitt Jr.
Brunswick
Georgia
1964 * 11. Elta Garrett
Sun
Louisiana
1969 * 12. Ten Lives
What They Teach Us
and Why They Matter * Notes * Additional Reading * Index