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The sacred forest : gender and matriliny in the Laimbwe history (Cameroon), C. 1750-2001 / Henry Kam Kah

Author:
Kah, Henry Kam  Search this
Physical description:
ii, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Type:
Texts
History
Place:
Cameroon
Date:
2015
To 1960
20th century
Topic:
Matrilineal kinship--History  Search this
Matriarchy--History  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1048381
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Black protest and the great migration : a brief history with documents / Eric Arnesen

Author:
Arnesen, Eric  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm
Type:
Sources
Place:
Southern States
United States
Date:
2003
C2003
20th century
1877-1964
Topic:
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
African Americans--Social conditions  Search this
Protest movements--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_919726
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The promised land : the great Black migration and how it changed America / Nicholas Lemann

Author:
Lemann, Nicholas  Search this
Physical description:
410 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1991
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Call number:
E185.6.L36 1991X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_406651
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Abiding courage : African American migrant women and the East Bay community / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo

Author:
Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Date:
1996
C1996
20th century
Topic:
African American women--Social conditions  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_491771
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The second gold rush : Oakland and the East Bay in World War II / Marilynn S. Johnson

Author:
Johnson, Marilynn S  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 302 p., [18] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
Oakland
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Date:
1993
C1993
20th century
Topic:
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
World War, 1939-1945  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_477087
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Notice[ing] the beauty of the snow-decorated landscape / by Ikem Okoye

Author:
Okoye, Ikemefuna Stanley Ifejika  Search this
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Institute for Advanced Study & Research in the African Humanities  Search this
Physical description:
43, [11] p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria
Date:
1994
1900-1960
Topic:
City planning--History  Search this
Urban policy--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
History  Search this
Colonial influence  Search this
Call number:
DT515.75 .O412 1994a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_499675
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Encyclopedia of the great Black migration / edited by Steven A. Reich

Author:
Reich, Steven A (Steven Andrew) 1965-  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Encyclopedias
Place:
United States
Date:
2006
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_800658
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Rural worlds lost : the American South, 1920-1960 / Jack Temple Kirby

Author:
Kirby, Jack Temple  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1987
C1987
20th century
Topic:
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Rural conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HN79.A13K57 1987X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_310092
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Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1929 / James R. Grossman, editor ; associate editor, Randolph Boehm ; guide compiled by Martin Schipper

Author:
Schipper, Martin Paul  Search this
Grossman, James R  Search this
Boehm, Randolph  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 39 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1985
C1985
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--Employment--Sources--Indexes  Search this
African Americans--Economic conditions--Sources--Indexes  Search this
Labor movement--Sources--Indexes  Search this
Migration, Internal--History--Sources--Indexes  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History--Sources--Indexes  Search this
Call number:
E185.8 .S33 1985
E185.8.S33 1985
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_375442
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Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1929 [microform] / James R. Grossman, editor

Author:
Grossman, James R  Search this
Schipper, Martin Paul Black workers in the era of the great migration, 1916-1929  Search this
University Publications of America, Inc  Search this
Physical description:
25 microfilm reels ; 35 mm
Type:
Microforms
Place:
United States
Date:
1985
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--Employment--Sources  Search this
African Americans--Economic conditions--Sources  Search this
Labor movement--Sources  Search this
Migration, Internal--History--Sources  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History--Sources  Search this
Call number:
E185.8 .B5628 1985
mfm 1181
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_375441
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Field to Factory Opens, NMAH

Subject:
National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)  Search this
Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 (Exhibition) (1987: Washington, D.C.)  Search this
Date:
February 5, 1987
20th century
Topic:
African Americans  Search this
Exhibit openings  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Openings  Search this
Rural-urban migration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_2318
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Remaking respectability : African American women in interwar Detroit / Victoria W. Wolcott

Author:
Wolcott, Victoria W  Search this
Physical description:
[xiii] , 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Michigan
Detroit
United States
Detroit (Mich.)
Date:
2001
C2001
20th century
Topic:
African American women--Social conditions  Search this
African American women--Economic conditions  Search this
Social classes--History  Search this
African Americans--Social conditions  Search this
African Americans--Economic conditions  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_687915
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The agricultural transition in New York State : markets and migration in mid-nineteenth-century America / Donald H. Parkerson

Author:
Parkerson, Donald Hugh  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 196 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New York (State)
United States
Date:
1995
19th century
To 1865
1865-1918
Topic:
Agriculture--Economic aspects--History  Search this
Farmers--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
HD1775.N7 P37 1995
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_972088
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Way up north in Louisville : African American migration in the urban South, 1930-1970 / Luther Adams

Author:
Adams, Luther  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Kentucky
Louisville
Southern States
Date:
2010
C2010
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--History  Search this
African Americans--Social conditions  Search this
African Americans--Civil rights--History  Search this
Civil rights movements--History  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_949600
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Making a way out of no way : African American women and the second great migration / Lisa Krissoff Boehm

Author:
Boehm, Lisa Krissoff 1969-  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 297 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
C2009
20th century
Topic:
African American women--Social conditions  Search this
African American women--History  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
African American women  Search this
Oral history  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_925792
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Fly away : the great African American cultural migrations / Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott

Author:
Rutkoff, Peter M. 1942-  Search this
Scott, William B. 1945-  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2010
20th century
1877-1964
Topic:
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
African Americans--Social life and customs  Search this
Civilization  Search this
African American influences  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_939161
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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson

Title:
Epic story of America's great migration
America's great migration
Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel  Search this
Physical description:
x, 622 p. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2010
C2010
20th century
Topic:
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_972506
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Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel / Lawrence R. Rodgers

Author:
Rodgers, Lawrence R (Lawrence Richard) 1960-  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 235 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Southern States
Date:
1997
C1997
20th century
Topic:
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism  Search this
African Americans in literature  Search this
Rural-urban migration in literature  Search this
Migration, Internal, in literature  Search this
City and town life in literature  Search this
Literature and society--History  Search this
Narration (Rhetoric)  Search this
In literature  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_521919
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Freedom's children : the journey from emancipation into the twentieth century / by Velma Maia Thomas

Title:
Freedom's children : the passage from emancipation to the Great Migration
Author:
Thomas, Velma Maia  Search this
Physical description:
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 x 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2000
C2000
20th century
1863-1877
1877-1964
Topic:
Slaves--Emancipation  Search this
Freedmen--Social conditions  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
African Americans--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_614176
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Movin' on: the great migration north / edited and introduced by Mitch Yamas[a]ki

Title:
Great migration north
Author:
Yamasaki, Mitch  Search this
Physical description:
68 p. : ill. ; 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1997
20th century
Topic:
Rural-urban migration--History  Search this
Migration, Internal--History  Search this
African Americans--Migrations--History  Search this
Call number:
E185.8 .M68 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_544977

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