Author | Berry, Chad, 1963-
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Title | Southern migrants, Northern exiles / Chad Berry.
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Published | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
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Description | xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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ISBN | 0-252-02429-X (alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0-252-06841-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.
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Formatted Note | Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Of dollmakers, job seekers, and divided hearts -- Footloose and dependent: the pioneers -- Up North and down home: Southern migrants and the Great Depression -- The discovery of poverty and migration: Midwestern politicians, New Dealers, and congressmen -- What a difference a war makes -- The great white migration, 1945-60 -- South by Midwest: transplanted Southern white culture -- The 1960s and beyond: battling, and disproving, stereotypes -- Epilogue: return from exile? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Subjects | Labor mobility -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Migration, Internal -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century. Migration, Internal -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Poor -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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LC Card Number | 99-6511 |
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| WRHS Research Library: HB 1971 A3 B534 mq132853: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 73281] |
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