TY - BOOK ID - 77881425 TI - Way up north in Louisville : African American migration in the urban South, 1930-1970 PY - 2010 SN - 1469603861 0807899437 9780807899434 9781469603865 9780807834220 080783422X 146961894X 9781469618944 9798893133493 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rural-urban migration KW - Migration, Internal KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights movements KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Country-city migration KW - Migration, Rural-urban KW - Rural exodus KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Urbanization KW - Internal migration KW - Mobility KW - Population geography KW - Internal migrants KW - Civil liberation movements KW - Liberation movements (Civil rights) KW - Protest movements (Civil rights) KW - Human rights movements KW - History KW - Migrations KW - Civil rights KW - Social conditions KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77881425 AB - Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks to move to urban centers in the South to make their homes. Adams defines ""home"" as a commitment to life in the South that fueled the emergence of a more cohesive sense of urban community and enabled southern blacks to maintain their ties to the South as a place of personal identity, fam ER -