Contested terrain
Subtitle: African-American women migrate from the South to Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-1950
By: Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons
Series: Crosscurrents in African-American history; Crosscurrents in African American history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780203951859
Subjects: African Americans; Social history; African American women; Social conditions; Migrations; Rural-urban migration; Social Conditions; Noirs américains; Histoire sociale; Noires américaines; Conditions sociales; Exode rural
Notes: Originally published in 2002 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. "Quitting the South" : profiles of African-American women who left; title: 2. "Mean man blues" : violence as impetus for migration; title: 3. "The work we've done" : African-American women's employment activities; title: 4. "They say the schools are better up there" : a decent education for my children; title: 5. "The sacred and the secular" : religious and social activities of migrant women; title: 6. "Cincinnati was no promised land" : life in the queen city.