Negro Migration: Changes in Rural Organization and Population of the Cotton Belt (Classic Reprint)

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Investigation of the conditions from which Negro migra tions rise throws new light on the vexing questions of land tenure and rural organization in the South. Descriptions of the movements reveal interesting and important social processes. A full treatment of the effect of the migration necessitates a review of all of the important problems of Negro life, for migration places them against a new and changing background.

The greater part of this work is devoted to the first two topics, namely: (1) The description of land tenure and the organization of farm life in the Cotton Belt. (2) How this organization results in the movements of population. One chapter is devoted to city movements and one to the effects of migration. While the writer is aware that the space of one chapter is entirely inadequate for a full treatment of the latter topic, it is not considered that the data are yet available for an exhaustive treatment. The principal effects are merely outlined so that students of special Negro problems may be warned that they will do well, after gathering their facts, to make allowance for population movement before drawing conclusions.

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