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Canaan Bound: Nonfiction Books on America’s Epic Great Migration

  1. The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  2. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
  3. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
  4. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America by James N. Gregory
  5. Farewell–We’re Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration by Carole Marks
  6. Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand
  7. Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life by Davarian L. Baldwin
  8. Can’t Be Satisfied by Robert Gordon
  9. Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks’ Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30 by Peter Gottlieb
  10. Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf by James Segrest
  11. South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain
  12. Urban Blues by Charles Keil
  13. The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender by Joe William Trotter Jr.
  14. A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield
  15. Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) by Lisa Krissoff Boehm
  16. Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads by Alan Harper
  17. Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South by Alferdteen Harrison
  18. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
  19. Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Eric Arnesen
  20. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration by James R. Grossman
  21. The B. B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos & Music from B. B. King’s Collection by B.B. King
  22. The Great Black Migration: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic by Steven Reich
  23. The Arrival of B.B. King by Charles Sawyer
  24. Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel by Lawrence R. Rodgers
  25. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King by B.B. King
  26. Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920 by Florette Henri
  27. The Detroit Riot of 1967 (Great Lakes Books) by Hubert G. Locke
  28. Bound For the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (The C. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience) by Milton C. Sernett
  29. Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
  30. Negro Migration During the War by Emmett J. Scott
  31. Detroit: Ragtime and the Jazz Age by Jon Milan
  32. Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Luther Adams
  33. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) by Dan Georgakas
  34. Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series by Elizabeth Alexander
  35. Where Did Our Love Go? the Rise and Fall of The Motown Sound by Nelson George
  36. Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919 by Christopher Robert Reed
  37. Calling Out Around the World: A Motown Reader by Kingsley Abbott
  38. AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945 by Kimberley L. Phillips
  39. Just Before Jazz by Thomas L. Riis
  40. Daily Life during African American Migrations (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Life in the United States) by Kimberley L. Phillips
  41. The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee