Oral History Review Advance Access originally published online on August 7, 2009
Oral History Review 2009 36(2):270-273; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohp047
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From Diversity to Unity: Southern and Appalachian Migrants in Uptown Chicago, 1950–1970
University of Mississippi
FROM DIVERSITY TO UNITY: SOUTHERN AND APPALACHIAN MIGRANTS IN UPTOWN CHICAGO, 1950–1970. By Roger Guy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 140 pp. Hardbound, $55.00.
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In this concisely written book, Roger Guy examines the experiences of rural southerners who migrated to urban Chicago during the post-World War II years. The well-organized study begins with the rise of white migration from the Appalachian south to Uptown Chicago in the 1950s and concludes with the decline of Uptown’s southern character in the 1970s. Guy’s work joins with a small but increasing number of books that focus on the migration of white southerners during the mid-twentieth century.
Through the narrative, Guy presents the reader with a clear understanding of the transitional phases of Uptown Chicago. The