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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and…
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
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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…
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon…
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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
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Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some…
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee…
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It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white…
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't…
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That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from…
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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example,…
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most…
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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…
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