I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example,… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Great Migration. It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century. It was vast. It was leaderless. It crept… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“Fifteen thousand men, women, and children gathered to watch eighteen-year-old Jesse Washington as he was burned alive in Waco, Texas, in May 1916. The… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“I don’t see one white person in this block selling drugs. They got the nerve to be mad at the blue-eyed devil. You don’t… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have. — DANIEL… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
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… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
“County supervisors relented only after losing their case in the U.S. Supreme Court, choosing finally to reopen the schools rather than face imprisonment.” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share
![“[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.” quote by Isabel Wilkerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/591/isabel-wilkerson-10765_aspect_the-great-migration-had-such-an-effect-o_1714768.jpg)
![“The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today.] And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.” quote by Isabel Wilkerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/791/isabel-wilkerson-10765_african-american_the-suburbanization-and-the-ghettos-that_1992366.jpg)
