The Promised Land: An Account of Sharecropping Families in Their Journey from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago
Nicholas Lemann
320 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0333565843
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Language: English
Publish: 681634800000
African AmericanAmericanAmerican HistoryHistoryJournalismNonfictionPoliticsRaceSociologyThe United States Of America
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.