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This book is indeed an epic story and and epic work. The author thoroughly researched her subject on multiple levels: the book tells the personal story of three individuals, while also delving into the academic and historical information both written contemporaneously and more recently, while also filling in the context of the larger story that this migration involved millions of people relocating across the country. The writing was largely excellent, with one minor complaint: the author repeate
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This is an amazing look at the migration of southern blacks to the north from 1915 to the 70's. Wilkerson presents the stories of three people who lived the migration--from different circumstances, from different areas to different places and different decades. She gives us overviews but then gives us an in depth look at people who actually lived the history. She has gathered and researched and interpreted the oral histories of a vast movement that has changed our nation.
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