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
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 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
[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 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
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
“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
“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
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 Image
“...they speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement...” — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — 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 west are… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 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)
