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That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They... →
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it... →
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find... →
There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have... →
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the... →
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell... →
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because... →
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would... →
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from... →
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the... →
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