The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Amazing writing and organizing of this book. It focuses on the stories of three people who have migrated from the Jim Crow South to the North and West. These people migrated in different decades, to different cities, and were from completely different backgrounds. One gets to see their personal thoughts and motives for moving away from their places of birth, from their families, their lives, the hardships they faced along the way, the adjustments and disillusions they went through when they got to their respective promised lands. In between their stories, Wilkerson gives big-picture reports to put the personal accounts in context. I am totally in awe with how well-done this book is. I think it is important for everyone living in the United States to read this book. [non-fiction, 622 pp.]
