Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters from This Century's African-American Migrations

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"Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters from This Century's African-American Migrations". Ed. Malaika Adero. New York: New Press, 1993. xx+216 pp.

Table of contents

● Acknowledgements
● Malaika Adero / Preface

● Langston Hughes / Bound No'th Blues
● William Pickens / Letter to the Editor of the Evening Post
● Dallas Express / An Editorial
● Carter Woodson / A Century of Negro Migration (Excerpt)
● Anon. / Federal Authorities Cannot Stop Northern Migration
● Chicago Defender / An Editorial
● R. R. Wright / Causes of the Migration from the Viewpoint of the Northern Negro
● Arthur G. Shaw / A Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Globe
● Joseph A. Hill / The Recent Northward Migration of the Negro
● Robert Fleming / The Ritual of Survival
● Charles S. Johnson / How Much Is the Migration a Flight from Persecution
● C. Otis / Why They Come North
● Opportunity magazine / Housing the Migrants
● W. J. Latham / Migration
● Emmett J. Scott / On Labor Agents
● Anon. / A Letter from Montgomery, Alabama
● Anon. / A Letter from Rome, Georgia
● Anon. / A Letter from New Orleans
● Anon. / Another Letter from New Orleans
● Anon. / A Letter (1916)
● Chicago Defender News Service / Two Articles
● Anon. / A Letter from New Orleans
● Hamilton Travis / A Letter to the Editor of the Newark Evening News
● Emmett J. Scott / The Migration: A Northern View
● Anon. / A Letter from Augusta, Georgia
● Anon. / A Letter from New Orleans
● Anon. / A Letter from Memphis
● Zora Neale Hurston / Dust Tracks of a Road (Excerpt)
● George E. Haynes / Negro Migration: Its Effect on Family and Community Life in the North
● Eugene Kinckle Jones / Negro Migration in New York State
● Journal and Guide / An Editorial
● Atlanta Independent / An Editorial
● Jacqueline Joan Johnson / Rememory: What There Is for Us
● Mary McLeod Bethune / The Problems of the City Dweller
● Chicago Defender / 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
● Anon. / A Letter from New Orleans
● Richard Wright / American Hunger (Excerpt)
● Anon. / A Letter from New Orleans
● Anon. / Another Letter from New Orleans
● Anon. / A Letter from Lapne, Alabama
● Anon. / A Letter from Greenville, Mississippi
● Anon. / Another Letter from Greenville, Mississippi
● Southern Standard / An Editorial
● Fort Worth Record / An Editorial
● Marita Golden / Long Distance Life (Excerpt)
● Arthur C. Holden / A Northerner's View of the Negro Problem
● T. Arnold Hill / Migration Again
● Frank D. Dixon / A Letter to the Editor of the Dallas Express
● Cynthia Simmons / Going East
● George J. Baldwin / The Migration: A Southern View
● Ralph Ellison / The Invisible Man (Excerpt)
● Peggy Dye / The Alley
● Birmingham Weekly Voice / An Editorial
● Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy / The Exodus Train
● Langston Hughes / One-Way Ticket

● Bibliography

Publisher's description

"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. 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" (publisher's description).

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