History Quote by Susan Eaton

I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't…

— Ella Baker

“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

“But hillbillies shared many regional characteristics with the southern blacks arriving in Detroit.”

— J.D. Vance

“At Hartford or New Haven or one of those other places where no one in their right fucking mind would want to live.”

— Stephen King

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

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

“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty, guns -…

— Michael Patrick MacDonald

“culturally conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural defenses.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

“Especially in Appalachian east Tennessee, where there were few slaves and few slave owners, the evangelical revivals of the Awakening movement cradled the abolition…

— Andrew Himes

“Emigration tears people apart. They learn about high points and personal disasters in letters and phone calls. Closer contact is impossible. As if they…

— Julya Rabinowich

“There were those who wanted to live right there, who were reticent to venture any further.”

— Hugh Howey