Langston Hughes called it "a great dark tide from the South": the
unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city
the nickname "Alabama North." This remarkable study reveals the
breadth of working-class black experiences and activities in
Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions
and values brought from the South.
Kimberley Phillips shows how migrants established complex
networks of kin and Mends and infused the city with a highly
visible southern African-American culture. She examines the wide
variety of organizations black working-class migrants created and
demonstrates how they prepared the way for new forms of individual
and collective activism in workplaces and the city.
Giving special consideration to the employment patterns and
experiences of working-class black women in Cleveland, AlabamaNorth
reveals how migrants' expressions of tradition and community gave
them a new consciousness of themselves as organized workers in the
urban North and created the underpinning for new forms of black
labor activism.
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