Making Their Own Way

"A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable bookson that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. PeterGottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life.African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploitingold solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscapeeven as it transformed them." -- James Campbell, Northwestern University"Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition tothe fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history." --Howard N. Rabinowitz, Georgia Historical Quarterly "Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary andsecondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important partof the Great Migration that followed World War I." -- George Lipsitz,Choice "Sensitive and yet also incisive. . . . clear and often compelling.An outstanding study." -- James R. Barrett, Journal of American Ethnic History Publication of this work was supported in part by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.