America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white… — 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
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they… — 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
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
There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there… — 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
“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
