Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xi, 217 pages: illustrations; 25 cm; bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. Fine; as new with minor bindery crease to front wrap (see photo). Paperback. ISBN: 0807845639 ; 9780807845639

Contents: 1. It Was Just Like Living in Two Worlds: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South, 1910-1940 -- 2. To Make the Two Worlds One: Migration from the South to the San Francisco East Bay Area -- 3. I Never Thought I'd Have to Create All That: Making New Homes in the East Bay Area -- 4. I Always Desired Independence, Never Wealth: Migrant Women and Wage Labor -- 5. I Never Denied Where I Came From: Migrant Women and Their Cultural Work in the East Bay -- 6. If We Didn't Do It, It Just Wouldn't Get Done: Migrant Women and Collective Action in the East Bay.

African Americans -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century. Rural-urban migration -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History -- 20th century. Noires américaines -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Conditions sociales. Exode rural -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. African American women -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Migrations. Rural-urban migration. Social conditions Schwarze Frau Migration Weibliche Schwarze. Migration. Time: 1900-1999 Geographic: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Social conditions. California -- San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco Bay -- Region, Ost San Francisco Bay (Region, Ost)