Black Migration and the American City: Forging the African American Urban Community
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1988 February 5-6
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content: Box 17, Folder 9
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Program created in observance of Black History Month held on Friday, February 5 and 6, 1988, including colloquiums in the Hall of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History, and a concert in the Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The conference offered the public a unique opportunity to hear leading scholars and oral history informants' present research and testimony on the distinctiveness and diversity of the Afro American urban community from the 19th century through the post-World War II period. Conference sponsored in conjunction with the Afro-American Communities Project and the exhibition "Field to Factory: Afro-American 
Migration, 1915-1940". Political scientists and oral history informants discussed the 19th-century urban community—particularly Black women—the 20th-century encouragements to leave the South; the Washington, DC, migrant experience; Marcus Garvey's appeal to migrants; and the Migration and the post-1950's Civil Rights movement. The panelists were James O. Horton, George Wright, Anthony Martin, James Grossman, Joe W. Trotter, Douglas Daniels, Alan Ballard, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Spencer R. Crew, Peter Gottlieb, Raymond Arsenault, Gary B. Nash, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Henry Taylor, and Karen Mittelman. Program number AC408.54.