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Author Guy, Roger, 1960-

Title From diversity to unity : Southern and Appalachian migrants in Uptown Chicago, 1950-1970 / Roger Guy.

Imprint Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  307.7609773 G99f 2007    ---  Available
Description viii, 131 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-129).
Contents Introduction: prelude to departure -- Hitting the hillbilly highway: leaving home behind -- Destination Uptown: a rocky evolution -- A common ground: urban adaptation and migrant identity -- Hillbilly jungle and hillbilly heaven: a tale of perceptions -- Unity, community, and the Chicago Southern Center -- Southern unity and social protest in Uptown -- The migrant generation: from unity to invisibility.
Subject City and town life -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
Rural-urban migration -- Southern States -- History.
Appalachians (People) -- Migrations.
ISBN 0739118331 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739118337 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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