The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaA New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - ccjolliffe - LibraryThingLittle lives rock big boats in Lemann's twofold drama of Pres. Johnson's Great Society venture. Act 1 introduces us to black victims of white progress in the sharecropper South, as they cast their ... Consulter l'avis complet
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it Changed America Nicholas Lemann Affichage d'extraits - 1991 |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America |
| Auteur | Nicholas Lemann |
| Éditeur | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307764877, 9780307764874 |
| Longueur | 416 pages |
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