“ 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 someone in their own family who had experienced a migrat… Isabel Wilkerson
“ The presence of the migrants in such large numbers crushed and stagnated the progress of Negro life, the economist Sadie Mossell wrote early in the migration to Philadelphia. Newly available census re… Isabel Wilkerson
“ Ida Mae Gladney, Robert Foster, and George Starling each left different parts of the South during different decades for different reasons and with different outcomes. The three of them would find some… Isabel Wilkerson
“ Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to… Isabel Wilkerson
“ From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do. Isabel Wilkerson
