Southern migrants, Northern exiles
By: Chad Berry.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Migration, Internal -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Labor mobility -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Of dollmakers, job seekers, and divided hearts; title: Footloose and dependent: the pioneers; title: Up North and down home: Southern migrants and the Great Depression; title: The discovery of poverty and migration: Midwestern politicians, New Dealers, and congressmen; title: What a difference a war makes; title: The great white migration, 1945-60; title: South by Midwest: transplanted Southern white culture; title: The 1960s and beyond: battling, and disproving, stereotypes; title: Epilogue: return from exile?; title: Bibliography; title: Index.