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    The Social Origins Of The Urban South Race, Gender And Migration In Nashville and Tennessee, 1890-1930

    University Of North Carolina Press
    In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, this work explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects.