North to Boston: Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England

by Blake Gumprecht

Book Overview

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most consequential mass movements of people in American history. Black migration from the South transformed the city, as it did urban areas across the country. North to Boston is the first book to examine that important subject.

Blake Gumprecht traces the history of this migration and explores its impacts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197614442
• ISBN13: 9780197614440
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"