Description: Pittsburgh and the Great Migration, Pennsylvania, American Heritage, Paperback During the Great Migration of 1916-1940 over two million African Americans left the American South seeking a greater quality of life, with the Steel City a major destination. Men and women packed up what they could fit in a suitcase or the trunk of a car and left behind their homes and families in search of better opportunities in the budding industries of the North and Midwest. They were escaping discriminatory laws and racial violence. Purchasing a car was one of the first things African Americans did as they moved into the middle class, providing a sense of freedom and automony unexerienced before. This mobility and the freedom to come and go as one pleases revolutionized the Black middle class in Pittsburgh and played a pivitol role in the Great Migration's effects upon the region. The Frick Pittsburgh's Car and Carriage Museum presents the harrowing history of Pittsburgh in the Great Migration and the role the car played in the growth of Black mobility and automony.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467153140
Book Title: Pittsburgh and the Great Migration : Black Mobility and the Automobile
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Frick Art & Historical Center
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Automotive / History, United States / 20th Century, African American
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Transportation, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
