num_pages: 320
description: A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.
language: English
title: The Promised Land: An Account of Sharecropping Families in Their Journey from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago
titlecomplete: The Promised Land: An Account of Sharecropping Families in Their Journey from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago
genres: American, Politics, Race, American History, African American, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Sociology, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 750
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Helen Bernstein Book Award
category: Excellence in Journalism, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers
publisher: Pan Macmillan