Between Depression and Prosperity? Changes in the Community Context of Historical African American Migration

Price‐Spratlen, Townsand

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“…Yet future investigations might explore the possibility that the institutional infrastructure of Black communities is a salient factor. Local institutionssuch as churches, fraternal orders, newspapers and other institutions that form the basis of life in Black communities (Price-Spratlen, 1998, citing Taylor, 1979)-could be vital elements of an urban environment that nurtures the success of Blacks who have the talent and ambition to achieve eminence in the business world.…”

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Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States

Boyd

2009

Urban Studies

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Extraordinarily successful Black entrepreneurs have received relatively little attention in the literature on Black socioeconomic progress in the US. The present study fi lls this gap by identifying the urban centres that have been the main locations of Black entrepreneurs who have been classifi ed by scholars as 'eminent'. Biographical data from highly regarded encyclopaedic sources show that these entrepreneurs have concentrated in a small number of urban centres and have a skewed spatial distribution that resembles the famous 'Pareto curve'. These data also indicate that, over most of the 20th century, Black communities in the urban South produced a disproportionate share of the Black Americans whose business successes have been nationally recognised. However, the data suggest that, by the end of the century, the largest metropolitan areas outside the South-Chicago, New York and Los Angeles-were becoming the primary locations of eminent Black entrepreneurs in the US.

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Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States

Boyd

2009

Urban Studies

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“…A decline in migration occurred between the two world wars, due in large measure to the impact of the Depression. However, despite the decline, prior research has also shown this inter-world war movement's important contributions to the Great Migration in both character and content (Alexander 1998;Price-Spratlen 1998, 1999a, 1999b. Much of this movement occurred well after World War I, when the postwar 1920s' economic shock had severely reversed.…”

Section: African American Migration During the 1950smentioning

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“…But their emphasis on origin dynamics and the years surrounding the two world wars leaves unaddressed the destination characteristics that formed the "other half " of the process and the factors that mattered to it during the late 1950s. One set of destination characteristics that research has shown to be important to African American migration is the cultural or ethnic community capacity of ethnogenesis (Boyd 1998(Boyd , 2002Price-Spratlen 1998, 1999a, 1999b.…”

Section: African American Ethnogenesis and The 1950smentioning

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“…The infrastructure of African American ethnogenesis consisted of four basic elements of the social structure previously shown to be important determinants of migration in earlier historical periods: community newspapers, job placement support, churches, and volunteer organizations (Price-Spratlen 1998, 1999asee also Curry 1981;Grossman 1989;Thomas 1992). Moving beyond origin area pushes, single-city destination analyses have focused on the ethnogenic richness of Detroit (Thomas 1992), Pittsburgh (Alexander 1998), Cleveland (Kusmer 1976;Phillips 1999), and Chicago (Drake and Cayton 1945;Lemann 1991;Canaan 2001).…”

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Urban Destination Selection among African Americans during the 1950s Great Migration

Price-Spratlen¹

2008

Social Science History

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“…Price-Spratlen evaluated the effects of African American ethnogenesis on the Great Migration's patterns. His analyses have shown the consistent significance of ethnogenesis as a destination-area instigator of migration (i.e., a migration "pull"), regardless of whatever other economic and population characteristics of the urban contexts prospective migrants considered (Price-Spratlen 1998;1999a;1999b). He concluded that this migration likely increased the number of potential activists and enlarged the collective pool of perceived discontent.…”

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The Urban Context of Historical Activism: NAACP Depression Era Insurgency and Organization-Building Activity

Price‐Spratlen

2003

The Sociological Quarterly

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This article examines the contextual determinants of two types of NAACP activism between 1930 and 1939. They are the justice-oriented outreach of insurgency (e.g.. a civil rights rally), and chapter-building activities (e.g., electing committee chairpersons). Activism is analyzed using a more divcrsc sct of factors than previous research on the sociopolitical context of social movements. Specifically, I examine historical urbanization and prior racial institutional development in 136 urban counties of the United States, about 95% of the 1930 African American urban system. WLS regression is used to provide a strong statistical basis for understanding the structural power and liberation context of these two distinct types of activism during the uniquely constrained Depression Era. Bolh insurgency and chapter-building activities increased due lo the expanding non-southern location of African Americans and the effects of WWI-era declines in the population of foreign-born whites. Thcy declined as a result of extreme racial-occupational segregation in the local area and being distant from a predominantly African American county. The factors shaping the two types of activism were not equal, in part due to both shared and non-shared determinants. A particularly instructive finding was that wage growth served as a lever of social control, being negatively related to insurgency. Viewed together, the findings clearly point to the joint influence of economic and noneconomic factors in shaping NAACP activism during the 1930s. and enhance our understanding of the broader determinants of African American activism generally.

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Between Depression and Prosperity? Changes in the Community Context of Historical African American Migration

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Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States

Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States

Urban Destination Selection among African Americans during the 1950s Great Migration

The Urban Context of Historical Activism: NAACP Depression Era Insurgency and Organization-Building Activity

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