From a Raw Deal to a New Deal(1st Edition) African Americans 1929-1945 (The Young Oxford History of African Americans) by JoeWilliamTrotter, Oxford University Press Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508771-0, ISBN: 0-19-508771-2
"Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work--these images defined the 1930s and '40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black workers had the highest unemployment rate at a time when black leaders held important positions in Franklin Roosevelt's administration; New Deal legislation threw hundreds of thousands of black sharecroppers off the land while the same federal go ..."
""The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century." --Southern Historian"As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology." --Pennsylvania History..". provocative and informative... " --Louisiana History"The papers themselves are uniformly strong, and read together cast interesti ..."
Blacks in the Diaspora The Great Migration in Historical Perspective : New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 1991 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36075-5, ISBN: 0-253-36075-7
"Documentary literature on African American history has largely neglected the significance of the industrial age in transforming the social, economic, and political patterns of black life in the United States. African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History, 1915-1945 fills that gap by providing a wide selection of documents that re-create the social history of African Americans during this watershed period. Oral life hist ..."