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Episode: Making Contact with George Lavender - The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration
Should they go or should they stay? That was a question millions of African Americans living in the South asked themselves in the 20thCentury. For many the answer was simple. Life in the South was hard and dangerous, with lynching, Jim Crow laws, and lack of economic opportunities. From 1910 to the 1960s an estimated 6 million African Americans left the South and moved North, in what became known as “The Great Migration.”
Isabel Wilkerson (Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration) traces the legacy of the Great Migration on American Society and Culture.
The Making Contact website is here.
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