"Anything that could be conceived of that would……" — Isabel Wilkerson
"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 South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know."
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Isabel Wilkerson
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12 Quotes by Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson has 12 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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...…
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Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for…
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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
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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…
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It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black…
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Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left…
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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…
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There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown,…
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living…
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