A Nation Under Our Feet

Summary

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration is a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written in 2003 by Steven Hahn.[1][2] The book is a history of the changing nature of African-American political power in the United States spanning six decades from around the end of the American Civil War to the Great Migration, when more than a million African Americans left the Southern United States for the Northern United States between about 1915 and 1930.[3] It received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University, and the Merle Curti Award in Social History from the Organization of American Historians.

A Nation Under Our Feet
AuthorSteven Hahn
PublisherBelknap Press
Publication date
November 10, 2003
Pages624
ISBN0-674-01169-4 (hardcover)

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References edit

  1. ^ "A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn". Publishers Weekly. September 22, 2003. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  2. ^ Strom, Claire (September 2004). "Strom on Hahn, 'A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration'". H-Net. H-South. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  3. ^ Perkins-Valdez, Dolen (2005). "Review of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration". African American Review. 39 (4): 611–613. ISSN 1062-4783.

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  • excerpt
  • online review