Emily McIllwain

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These things stayed with them even though they left, because a crying part of them had not wanted to leave. “If I were half as well treated home as here,” a migrant in Pittsburgh told the economist Abraham Epstein early in the Migration, “I would rather stay there.”
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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