The 20th-century migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North.
In other words, it was a story with many of the same problems that came to dominate the urban, welfare-dependent North.
Dixon's Daily Review also explored morality and women's place in the rapidly changing society of the urban North.
Focusing on the 1930's, it is a story about the Charles family, Southern blacks who have moved to the urban North.
A skillful, energetic account of the migration of 6.5 million black people from rural South to urban North between 1910 and 1970.
The law is passed following a series of contentious open housing campaigns throughout the urban North.
The twentieth century Great Migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North reduced Virginia's black population to about 20%.
"Now we're seeing the areas blacks are moving from are not only in the rural South but also in the urban North."
The 20th-century migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and the changes it has wrought.
For much of the early 20th century, waves of black migrants traveled from a no-hope rural South to a some-hope urban North.