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Title: Bound for Glory 1910-1930: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance (Milestones in Black American History) by Kerry Candaele, Spencer Crew, Clayborne Carson, Darlene Clark Hine ISBN: 0-7910-2261-7 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Summary: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance
Comment: "Bound for Glory 1910-1930" is part of the "Milestones in Black American History," a 16-volume exploration of the black experience from Ancient Egypt to the present. Each volume focuses on a specific period of African-American history, and this book by Kerry Candaele covers the vast migration of blacks from the rural South to the cities of the North. Fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, racial segregation remained the norm in the South, which remained isolated and economically backward. During these two decades over a million black southerners moved north to escape the constraints of persecution, poverty, and cultural emptiness. Although they also faced racism and discrimination in the North, blacks made significant achievements in World War I, art, music, literature, political, business, entertainment, and sports. The result, Candaele argues, was that blacks forged a new respect for themselves and their African-American identity.

This volume offers eight chapters: (1) The Great Migration overviews the search for a less racist society with greater economic opportunities in the North; (2) Safe for Democracy? looks at the performance of blacks on the battlefields of World War I; (3) After the War looks at how white racists responded to the new racial pride of the blacks; (4) Marcus Garvey and Pan-Africanism focuses on the leader of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and one of the most important black figures between the wars; (5) That's Entertainment looks at not only comedies with Stepin Fetchit and "Our Gang," but birth of both the Harlem Globetrotters and the Negro Leagues of baseball players; (6) Harlem talks about the famous New York community, while; (7) Renaissance looks at the writers and artists, such as Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong, that created the cultural explosion of the Twenties; and (8) A New Struggle Begins looks at the impact of the Great Depression. This book is illustrated with dozens of black & white photographs, not only of key black figures but also of race riots and lynchings.

These books are marvelous supplementary sources for American History textbooks for which the black experience is usually a relatively minor consideration. Yes, young students will read about familiar names like World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, pitcher Satchel Paige and "Duke" Ellington, but they will also learn about World War I hero Sgt. Henry Johnson, author and teacher Jessie Fauset the "midwife of the Harlem Renaissance," and educator Mary McLeod Bethune. Candaele does an excellent telling the story of both these people and the times in which they lived.