
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land won the New York Times bestseller recognition and was an authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9780307764874
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Great MigrationAfrican-American historyUrbanization
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryWon(1991)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1991)
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