American Quote by William Barr

When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,…

— Rhymefest

[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

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

“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

More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they…

— William J. Clinton

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 Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant.…

— Harold Rosenberg

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland.…

— John Shadegg

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the…

— Shelby Steele