Gretchen Lemke Santangelo: 1 book
Abiding Courage
African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty...
