“Obama has returned to Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration multiple times in interviews and speeches. Following three individuals from the Deep South to Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles across fifty years, it remains the definitive narrative treatment of one of the largest internal migrations in American history.”
“Wilkerson's account of the Great Migration — six million Black Americans leaving the South between 1915 and 1970 — is a book Obama has recommended for understanding how the geography of American opportunity was shaped by race. It makes the backstory of Becoming legible at a national scale.”
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