![]() ![]() ![]() The exits occurred for various reasons: the desire to escape the near-starvation of tenant farmer existences the need to leave because their own prospects were so restricted, and they wanted more for their children the middle of the night departures because a son had not been deferential enough to an outraged white townsman the vaporization of an entire family overnight, because their pretty eldest daughter had attracted the lingering glance of a white man she would not be allowed to refuse, with dire consequences to her entire family. ![]() Reading Isabel Wilkerson is like hearing the stories of my parents’ friends and their parents, the handed-down (and often sanitized) tales of their exodus from the South. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ![]()
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