Land of Hope

CTL-E-5850 · Work · book · 1991

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Combined Graph record U-07105 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5850.

Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration is a history book by James R. Grossman, published by the University of Chicago Press — in cloth in 1989 and in the 398-page paperback edition dated February 1991 that this record's era follows. Drawing on government records, manuscripts, and other archival material, the book studies Black Southerners who migrated to Chicago during World War I and its aftermath, treating the movement as a cultural as well as economic experience: why migrants left, what they expected the North to be, and how they remade their lives, work, and institutions in the city. It is organized in two parts, the second describing how the Southerners lived once in Chicago, and it has been received in the scholarly community as a significant contribution to the history of Black migration to Chicago. Grossman later served as executive director of the American Historical Association and as a director of the Encyclopedia of Chicago project.

The record

• Also known as: Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Land of Hope entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5850 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan sample, readiness rank 2112 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #163). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — scholarly history of Black Southern migration to Chicago in World War I and its aftermath; core BCI-001 / BVM-005 scope. Vital status: n/a (Work). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 398 pages (University of Chicago Press); cloth edition 1989 (ISBN 978-0-226-30994-1) and paperback edition February 1991 (ISBN 978-0-226-30995-8) — the 1991 era on this record is the paperback date given in the intake roster, and the two dates are shown separately, not blended (CTL-GOV-004). MEDIA: photo HELD (Land of Hope University of Chicago Press cover named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5850-land-of-hope.svg); video HELD (no matching CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no audiobook or recording with a CTL rights basis staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

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• James R. Grossman — authored by
  Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1989) is James R. Grossman's book; this edge was blocked in Wave 1 for want of the author record and is unblocked by CTL-E-5934.

Sources

• BiblioVault / University of Chicago Press, "Land of Hope (9780226309958)" (accessed 2026-10-16) — publisher, 1989 publication with cloth, paper, and e-book ISBNs, and the publisher's description of the migration analysis — https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780226309958 (primary source · build store)
• Bookshop.org, "Land of Hope" product record (accessed 2026-10-16) — University of Chicago Press paperback, publish date February 12, 1991, 398 pages — https://bookshop.org/p/books/land-of-hope-chicago-black-southerners-and-the-great-migration-director-dr-william-m-scholl-center-for-family-and-community-history-james-r-grossman/4aaa31823c4db195?ean=9780226309958 (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration" (accessed 2026-10-16) — 1989 University of Chicago Press publication, two-part structure, archival research base, and Grossman's later American Historical Association role — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Hope:_Chicago,_Black_Southerners,_and_the_Great_Migration (build store)

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