Research Catalog

Title

The Negro peasant turns cityward; effects of recent migrations to northern centers, by Louise Venable Kennedy, PH. D.

Author

Kennedy, Louise Venable, 1895-1954

Publication

New York, Columbia University Press; London, P.S. King & Son, ltd., 1930.

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Additional Authors

• Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
• Columbia University. Council for Research in the Social Sciences

Description

270 p. diagr.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in history, economics, and public law ; no. 329

Uniform Title

Studies in history, economics, and public law no. 329.

Alternative Title

Migrations to northern centers, Effects of recent.

Subject

• Geschichte 1910
• African Americans
• African Americans > Employment
• African Americans > Social conditions

Note

• "Research conducted ... under subsidy by the Social science research council and the Columbia university Council for research in the social sciences."
• Published also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia university.

Bibliography (note)

• "General bibliography": p. 239-255.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Characteristics of recent Negro migrations -- The causes of migration -- Nature of the material -- Economic and social effects of migration -- Occupations, wages and hours of labor -- Race contacts involved in the industrialization of the Negro -- The Negro's industrial achievement -- Demographic readjustment of the Negro population -- The housing of northern Negroes -- Vital statistics and health -- The social maladjustment of the Negro -- The Negro and northern institutions -- Migration and social contacts -- Summary and recommendations.

LCCN

^^^30027937^

OCLC

3633721

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library