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Readings on Migration Patterns for Black Americans in Rust Belt Cities

  • Lillian Williams, Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community in Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 (1990)
  • Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (2010)
  • Eric Arnesen, Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2003)
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