Migration Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“All told, perhaps the most significant measure of the Great Migration was the act of leaving itself, regardless of the individual outcome. Despite the…

— Vintage

“Over the decades, perhaps the wrong questions have been asked about the Great Migration. Perhaps it is not a question of whether the migrants…

— Isabel Wilkerson

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“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 schools opened…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,…

— James T. Patterson

“migrations which would swamp whole populations and turn countries now white into colored man’s lands irretrievably lost to the white world.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the…

— William Barr

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

“First, it confirmed how inextricably interwoven the past is in the present, how heavily that past bears on the future; we cannot talk about…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Those who were die-hard supporters of the Confederacy, including many slaveholders, fled farther south to Texas, where they settled down to rebuild their lives…

— Andrew Himes

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris