The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans
between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and
tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration
of approximately five million people helped improve the financial
prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved
increasingly into the middle class.
Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories
with women migrants and their children, two groups largely
overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing
oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives.
In extended excerpts from the oral histories, and in thoughtful
scholarly analysis of the voices, this book offers a unique window
into African American women's history.
These rich oral histories reveal much that is surprising.
Although the Jim Crow South presented persistent dangers, the women
retained warm memories of southern childhoods. Notwithstanding the
burgeoning war industry, most women found themselves left out of
industrial work. The North offered its own institutionalized
racism; the region was not the promised land. Additionally, these
African American women juggled work and family long before such
battles became a staple of mainstream discussion. In the face of
challenges, the women who share their tales here crafted lives of
great meaning from the limited options available, making a way out
of no way.
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