Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
List of Primary Documents.
Guide to Related Topics.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
The Great Migration Chronology.
1: African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
2: American Federation of Labor (AFL).
3: Appalachia.
4: Atlanta, Georgia.
5: Baltimore, Maryland.
6: Baptist Church.
7: Beauty Culture.
8: Black Consumer Market.
9: Black Migration Before World War I, Patterns of.
10: Black Press.
11: Black Suburbanization.
12: Blockbusting.
13: Blues.
14: Boll Weevil.
15: Caribbean Migration.
16: Chain Migration.
17: Chicago, Illinois.
18: Chicago Defender, The.
19: Cincinnati, Ohio.
20: Civil Rights Movement.
21: Cleveland, Ohio.
22: Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
23: Cotton Belt.
24: Dance Halls and Nightclubs.
25: Demographic Patterns of the Great Black Migration (1915–1940).
26: Demographic Patterns of the Great Black Migration (1940–1970).
27: Detroit, Michigan.
28: DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868–1963).
29: Electoral Politics.
30: Employment, Black Female Patterns of.
31: Employment, Black Male Patterns of.
32: Federal Surveillance of Black Migrants.
33: Garvey, Marcus Mosiah, Jr. (1887–1940).
34: Ghettos.
35: Great Migration, Black Opposition to.
36: Great Migration, Causes of.
37: Great Migration, White Opposition to.
38: Gulf South.
39: Harlem Renaissance.
40: Hughes, James Mercer Langston (1902–1967).
41: Hurston, Zora Neale (1891–1960).
42: Insurers and Insurance Companies.
43: Intraracial Class Conflict.
44: Jazz.
45: Johnson, Charles Spurgeon (1893–1956).
46: Labor Agents.
47: Lawrence, Jacob (1917–2000).
48: Literature, The Great Migration in.
49: Los Angeles, California.
50: Lynching.
51: Masculinity.
52: Miami, Florida.
53: Migrants, Economic Characteristics of.
54: Migrants, Expectations of.
55: Migrants, Social Characteristics of.
56: Military Service, World War I.
57: Military Service, World War II.
58: Mississippi River Delta.
59: Nation of Islam.
60: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
61: National Urban League (NUL).
62: Negro Leagues.
63: New York City.
64: Northeastern States, Black Migration to.
65: Nurses.
66: Occupational Mobility.
67: Organized Labor.
68: Packinghouse Workers and Unions.
69: Pentecostalism.
70: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
71: Physicians.
72: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
73: Political Activism (1915–1945).
74: Political Realignment.
75: Public Housing.
76: Racial Violence and World War II.
77: Railroads.
78: Randolph, Asa Philip (1889–1979).
79: Red Summer of 1919.
80: Restrictive Covenants.
81: Return Migration.
82: Skilled Workers.
83: Sport.
84: Steelworkers.
85: Storefront Churches.
86: Swing.
87: Unemployment.
88: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
89: Urban Crisis of the 1960s.
90: Urban Renewal.
91: Visual Arts, the Great Migration in.
92: Wartime Mobilization, World War II.
93: Washington, DC.
94: Western States, Black Migration to.
95: White Flight.
96: Women.
97: Woodson, Carter Godwin (1875–1950).
Primary Documents.
“Bound for the Promised Land” (The Chicago Defender, 1917).
But it is a Fine Place to Make Money (Letters of Black Migrants, 1917).
“The East St. Louis Pogrom: An Eyewitness Account” (Carlos F. Hurd, 1917).
Finding Child Care in Philadelphia (Beulah Collins, 1920s).
“Is Migration a Panacea?” (Cleveland Advocate, 1920).
“Lynching—One Cause of Black Migration” (James Weldon Johnson, 1924).
“Olivet—A Community-Serving Church in Chicago” (1924).
Why are They So Hard on a Colored Man in this Town? (Migrant to South Bend, 1921).
Struggle to Find Housing in World War II Cleveland (1944–1945).
Selected Bibliography.
Index.
About the Editor.