AlabamaNorth African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45

Name: AlabamaNorth African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45
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ISBN: 9780252067938

ISBN-10: 0252067932

ISBN-13: 9780252067938

Edition: 1999

Authors: Kimberley L. Phillips

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"Langston Hughes called it ""a great dark tide from the South"": the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname ""Alabama North."" In this remarkable study, Kimberley Phillips reveals the breadth of working-class black experiences and activities in Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions and values brought from the South. Phillips shows how migrants' moves north established complex networks of kin and friends and infused the city with a highly visible southern African-American culture. She examines the wide variety of black fraternal, benevolent, social, and church-based organizations working-class migrants created and…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 10/19/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Kimberley L. Phillips is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Militancy and Courage" in AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants and the Crossroads of Southern Black Culture



"Pins" North: The Routes of African-American Migration to Cleveland



Encountering Work: African-American Workers' Experiences in the Cleveland Labor Market, 1915-29



"Join a Union": African-American Workers and Organized Labor, 1915-30



A New World in the City: Making Homes in Cleveland



"AlabamaNorth": A Community of Southerners



"The Future Is Yours": Store Boycott Campaigns and Black Workers' Militancy



"The Plight of Negro Workers": Federal Initiatives and African-American Working-Class Militancy during World War II


Conclusion: We Will Make a Way Somehow: The Legacy of a Southern Past in a Northern City


Notes


Index