The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 31, 1992 - History - 416 pages
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.

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CLARKSDALE
1
CHICAGO
59
WASHINGTON
109
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About the author (1992)

Nicholas Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans and has been a magazine writer since he was a teenager. He has worked at the Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post, and has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He was the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University until 2013.

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