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c2011., Juvenile, Amistad Call No: 811.54 GRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
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c2011., Juvenile, Amistad Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A sensitive poetic description of the hopes and fears of African American families facing the decision to move North in the early 20th century.
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2008., Juvenile, Weigl Publisher Call No: 973 DE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American historySummary Note: Black-and-white photographs and text discuss the social history between slavery and the civil rights movement, and cover legal discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, race riots, Harlem, military service during the World Wars, and more.
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2000., Benchmark Books / Marshall Cavendish Call No: 973.01 HAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern Blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.
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2011., Vintage Books Call No: 304.8 WIL Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.