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
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones… — William Barr 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
What will make the 'Bitter Root' film unique is that it is a Black-owned, Black-created storyline steeped in the history of the… — Jason Johnson 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
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 can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Some historians, in fact, suggest Hartford recruiters may have pioneered strategies that spurred the great migration of Southern rural blacks to Northern… — Susan Eaton 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
“The word Punt is always written without the hieroglyph determinative of a foreign country, thus showing that the Egyptians did not regard… — Leonard William King Copy Share Image
“They traveled deep into far-flung regions of their own country and in some cases clear across the continent. Thus the Great Migration… — 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
“It was the language that left us first. The Great Migration of words. When people spoke they punched each other in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change—the whites-only signs came down, the all-white… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“All told, perhaps the most significant measure of the Great Migration was the act of leaving itself, regardless of the individual outcome.… — Vintage Copy Share Image
I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Then instead of hurrying he was standing still, he was very tired and sweating under the heavy coat, and looking up he… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Over the decades, perhaps the wrong questions have been asked about the Great Migration. Perhaps it is not a question of whether… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Rochester became a magnet for African Americans in the twentieth century, one of many northern industrial cities that blacks flocked to during… — Rick Wartzman Copy Share Image
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
“Today's anti-immigration debates lack essential perspective about the nature of migration, the character of the migrant and the imperatives that drive the… — Jeb Brugmann Copy Share Image
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's… — Ruben Martinez Copy Share Image
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from… — Alice Roberts 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
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
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
Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A… — Ayana Mathis 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 [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/quotes/img-quotes/791/isabel-wilkerson-10765_african-american_the-suburbanization-and-the-ghettos-that_1992366.jpg)
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/591/isabel-wilkerson-10765_aspect_the-great-migration-had-such-an-effect-o_1714768.jpg)
