Full name: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America

Author: Nicholas Lemann Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, History, Non Fiction Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679733478 0679733477

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels. Similar books: The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn The Making of African America by Ira Berlin Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen American Nations by Colin Woodard Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson The Mind of the South by W. J. Cash The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows