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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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