Anyplace But Here. A revised and expanded version of They Seek a City, with new chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, and Detroit, Chicago. and Watts.

Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy:

Published by New York, Hill and Wang, 1966

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372 pages, text in English, table of contents, index, dust jacket, former library copy with the usual markings e.g. barcode stamp and inventory number, cover with slight signs of wear due to age, edges browned due to age, stains on front and back endpapers, handwritten notes on front inside cover New York, Hill and Wang 1966 The migration of negroes from the South to other regions in the United States is one of the great migrations in history. it began long before slavery ended and it continues today. To the historian and the sociologist this migration tends to be a mass of statistics and lifeless data, but for each individual Negro the migration has been a long search for a place to live. Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy have written a history of the American negro s search for a home, and it is a personal not a statistical history. It is filled with stories about men and women - some of them typical and common, some of them unique - who sought and sometimes found a new life in the North, the East, or the West. From Du Sable, who settled at the mouth of the Cicago River in 1779, to Frederick Douglass, to John Jones, who became one of Chicago s leading merchants in the 1870 s, to "Jelly Roll" Morton, and to scores of obscure persons - the high and the low, the successful and the defeated - runs a theme of hope, undercut by disappointment, and hope renewed. Anyplace But Here is a completely revised and expanded version of They Seek a City, published in 1945. It includes several chapters not in the earlier book, on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcom X, and the racial disturbances in Detroit, Chicago, and Watts. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 490.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anyplace But Here. A revised and expanded version of They Seek a City, with new chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, and Detroit, Chicago. and Watts.
• Publisher: New York, Hill and Wang
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• Binding: 8°, cloth binding
• Edition: first printing,.
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Zeitgeschichte