"That's one of the biggest losses, I think,……" — Isabel Wilkerson
"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 didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow."
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Isabel Wilkerson
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12 Quotes by Isabel Wilkerson
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