Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970

Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970. By Luther Adams. (Chapel Hill: University of Norch Carolina Press, 2010. xvi, 272 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3422-0.)

Most monographs on the second Great Migration focus on the black exodus from the economically challenged rural South co deriving economic urban areas in the North and West. However, the hiscorian Lucher Adams's wellresearched study shifts our attention to black migration to the urban South. Way Up North in Louisville examines che dynamics of African American migration co Louisville and the impact of these newcomers on the black freedom struggle in the upper Souch.

Adams follows che recenc crend of extending the historical timeline of the struggle for racial equality. African Americans began largescale migration to Louisville from throughout the bluegrass region and ocher cities...