From Diversity to Unity is a community study of settlement and adaptation of Southern and Appalachian migrants to the neighborhood of Uptown Chicago. Oral histories, community newspapers, and secondary sources reveal the human experience of urban migration. Following the postwar collapse of the coal industry, Appalachian migration to northern cities increased significantly. Guy examines this migration, placing particular emphasis on the role of women in the settlement of the migrants in a new place.From Diversity to Unity fills a valuable niche in urban and Appalachian history and is ideal for scholars and students of urban and Chicago history as well as Appalachian and ethnic studies.

"Guy provides a compelling look at the experiences of southern Americans in the postwar urban North, confronting a new environment and crafting a cohesive community identity in the process." - H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, April 2008

"Valuable for undergraduate and graduate courses on ethnicity, adaption of migrants, urban community studies, and urban politics. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries." - CHOICE

"Guy's case study of Uptown is a useful addition to the literature on urban Appalachian and Southern migrants." - Contemporary Sociology

"Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander's Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970) announced the emergence of the white southern community in Chicago. From Diversity to Unity documents its development, maturity, and demise." - Journal Of Appalachian Studies