A “Great Migration”…Back to the South
GSU Sociology Professor Deidre Oakley was recently interviewed on WABE News regarding African Americans’ 20th-century “great migration” from the South and reverse migration back in recent decades. For more information on this “great migration,” check out some of these books available at the University Library:
- The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, by Nicholas Lemann
- The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender, by Joe William Trotter
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, by Howard Dodson
- Call to Home: African-Americans Reclaim the Rural South, by Carol B. Stock
- The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America, by James N. Gregory
- The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Great Migration: An American Story, by Jacob Lawrence [children’s book]