DOC 100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know) by Michael Emmerich in History

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The Second Great Migration; the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s; transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans; who; in the next generation; moved increasingly into the middle class.Over seven years; Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children; two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives. In extended excerpts from the oral histories; and in thoughtful scholarly analysis of the voices; this book offers a unique window into African American women's history.These rich oral histories reveal much that is surprising. Although the Jim Crow South presented persistent dangers; the women retained warm memories of southern childhoods. Notwithstanding the burgeoning war industry; most women found themselves left out of industrial work. The North offered its own institutionalized racism; the region was not the promised land. Additionally; these African American women juggled work and family long before such battles became a staple of mainstream discussion. In the face of challenges; the women who share their tales here crafted lives of great meaning from the limited options available; making a way out of no way.