SOUTH SIDE GIRLS: Growing Up in The Great Migration. By Marcia Chatelain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2015.Historians studying the African American experience have written extensively on the complexities of the First and Second Great Migrations. Studies by Darlene Clark Hine, Joe Trotter, James Grossman, Luther Adams, and others demonstrate the various socioeconomic and political and personal factors drawing millions of black southerners to urban northern, southern, and midwestern communities. Much of what scholars already know about African Americans' migratory journeys and adjustment to urban terrains is indeed well documented and primarily centered on the experiences of adults. Filling a much-needed historical gap within the subfields of African American, urban, and women and childhood studies, scholar Marcia Chatelain's South Side Girls provides a nuanced interpretation of black migration.South Side Girls situates African American girls at the center of the Great Migration, unmasking their less familiar accounts of settlement to one of the nation's most fascinating cities. Focusing on between 1910 and 1940, Chatelain maintains that the city's shifting socioeconomic and political landscapes, as well as black city dwellers' real and imagined anxieties about city living, impacted African American parents, community leaders, and social scientists' perceptions of black girlhood. Constructing vulnerable images of urban black girls, Chicago community leaders scrutinized black girls' behavior, evaluated their choices, and assessed their possibilities as part of a larger conversation about what urbanization ultimately meant for black citizens (2). For middle-class leaders black girlhood, often discussed within the context of racial uplift and respectable politics, symbolized both promise and problems. In turn, adults' concerns about adolescent females shaped reform campaigns and programs aimed at employing, educating, and protecting girls.Chatelain makes several important interventions. She offers a thorough examination of Chicago's less familiar African American political reformers. Profoundly committed to the socioeconomic advancement of black girls, social workers and activists-such as industrial school founder Amanda Smith, black sorority members, Black Camp Fire Advocates, and National Youth Administration Resident School for Girls employees-launched educational, vocational, and recreational programs. These reform movements situated black girls' socioeconomic needs at the center of broader African American political agendas focusing on the construction of respectable families and communities. …