How six million people changed the course of American history
In short: Journalist Isabel Wilkerson explores the Great Migration, a massive movement of African Americans seeking agency and freedom by leaving the Jim Crow South for Northern and Western cities.
From the end of World War I until the 1970s, roughly six million African Americans relocated from the Jim Crow South to Northern and Western urban centres. Such a shift marked the initial instance in US history where those in the lowest caste demonstrated they possessed alternatives and intended to pursue them.
By choosing their own paths, these individuals exercised a level of agency that neither Northern nor Southern powers would grant them. Through this mass exodus, they sought to determine for themselves how to apply their innate talents and ultimately freed themselves.
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