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In Search of Freedom: Black Migration to Houston, 1914-1945

By Houston History Magazine on October 31, 2010 in Communities, Houstonians, Race & Ethnicity

To read the full text of this article by Bernadette Pruitt that appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Houston History, download the pdf version.

African Americans, Black domestics, Black Migration, Black women, chain migration, Civil Rights Movement, coming to Houston, economic migrants, Fifth Ward, Great Migration, Houston economy, Jim Crow, Martha Williams, migrants to Houston, migration, racism, rural-to-urban migration

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