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 so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
- Isabel Wilkerson
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed. - Isabel Wilkerson
You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
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… - 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…
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
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… - Isabel Wilkerson
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…
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. - Isabel Wilkerson
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
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