The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
Published on 24. August 2011
416 pages
978-0-307-76487-4 (ISBN)
Description
A 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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Nicholas Lemann
The Promised Land
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01/1995
Random House Value Publishing
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Nicholas Lemann
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
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03/1992
Vintage Books
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02/1991
Alfred A. Knopf
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Person
Nicholas Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans and has been a magazine writer since he was a teenager. He has worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post, and has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He was the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University until 2013.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Clarksdale
- Chapter 2 - Chicago
- Chapter 3 - Washington
- Chapter 4 - Chicago
- Chapter 5 - Clarksdale
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Copyright
