On A Burning Deck: An Oral History of the Great Migration

by Tom Jones

In the earliest decades of the 20th century, more than twenty-eight million men and women--black and white--began "The Great Migration" north from Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and other states of the Deep South and Appalachia. This, as all were lured to the industrial centers of our country by high wages and the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families.
Among the white southerners who left their homes, tens of thousands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578562707
• ISBN13: 9780578562704
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Thomas W. Jones
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"