It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell….

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 tod….

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

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because peo….

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

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are..

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed..

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 was no one pers….

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have….

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….

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 products of the gre….

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

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 of the Gre….

My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of….

Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would h….

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me..

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Sout….

Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were s….

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it bec….

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually….

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….