Recommended reading on the Great Migration

March 8, 2018 9:07 PM

Looking for suggested readings on the Second Great Migration, specifically stuff about African Americans traveling from from the South to the Western states or California in specific.

Articles, essays, documentaries, whatever is good. I do know about the Warmth of Other Suns.

Thank you!

posted by latkes to Society & Culture (2 answers total)

Googled "great migration" and bibliography.
Here's one.
From Goodreads.
From University of Washington .
From the Library of Congress.
From the Schomburg Center.
The bibliography in this book looks like it has some good stuff. I looked at a couple of pages on google books, including this one: To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 by Shirley Ann Moore. She also wrote another book: Sweet Freedom's Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869 (Race and Culture in the American West Series).

I hope this helps! I ran across countless articles in academic journals too. Get in touch if you need more stuff, I'm a librarian.
posted by mareli at 9:58 AM on March 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

David Halberstam's The Fifties does a great job of contextualizing the Great Migration within its titular decade.
posted by Mr. Fig at 4:34 AM on March 10, 2018