"Presents information regarding the migration of African Americans from the southern states to the northern states from 1916 to 1970, including key events, and influential people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students"--Provided by publisher.
Contents
Moving north -- Legal discrimination -- Time for change -- Separate but equal -- Ku Klux Klan -- Lynching -- Booker T. Washington -- African American publications -- Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- The work of the NAACP -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Chicago: the top destination -- Race riots -- Harlem: a place for a renaissance -- Discrimination in workplaces -- A new home for migrants -- Military service and the World Wars -- Early stages of the Civil Rights Movement -- A victory in the fight for rights.