The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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They did not ask to be accepted but declared themselves the Americans that perhaps few others recognized but that they had always been deep within their hearts.Isabel Wilkerson
The people did not cross the turnstiles of custom, the rigged games against them, by law or by fire, only, but by acts of imagination, by creativity within that was no less dramatic than the creativity of the masters without.Isabel Wilkerson
What the people wanted was very simple. They wanted to be treated like other human beings. They wanted to be able to earn an admittal living and to be able to send their children to a decent school.Isabel Wilkerson
'The kind of work I done all my life, it's the lowest kind,' Ida Mae said. 'I didn't think I was no better than nobody else and didn't try to be no better than nobody else. I felt that if God had made us all, we were all human beings.'Ida Mae Gladney
Each successive wave in every decade of the Great Migration was the ultimate protest of the people, the quiet undermining of the Cotton Curtain in the South that led to the falling of the more visible one in the North and West.Isabel Wilkerson
'I was leaving the South to go to the North, where a man is a man and a woman is a woman,' said Joe William Trotter.Joe William Trotter
'I wanted to see what it was like to be treated as a citizen,' George Starling once said of his migration north.George Starling
'When the train crossed the river into Illinois, everything looked suddenly clean — the streets, the buildings, the people. I could see people's skin color.' It's something he had never noticed before living in the dirt-poor, segregated south.Robert Foster
In a way, the Great Migration had been of the most radical things that the people could have done.Isabel Wilkerson
'It was like a war,' Mrs. Gladney remembered. 'I was one of the soldiers. We was escaping for our lives and the lives of our children.'Ida Mae Gladney