Berries Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

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

“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

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of…

— Isabel Wilkerson

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…

— Isabel Wilkerson

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the…

— 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

“Great Migration. It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century. It was vast. It was leaderless. It crept along so…

— 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

“They traveled deep into far-flung regions of their own country and in some cases clear across the continent. Thus the Great Migration had more…

— 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

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No…

— Isabel Wilkerson

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson…

— Diana Ross