“The Great Migration would become a turning point … It would force the South to search its soul and finally lay aside a feudal caste system”.
Over the course of six decades, some six million black southerners left the land of their forefathers and fanned out across the country for an uncertain existence… The Great Migration would become a turning point … It would force the South to search its soul and finally lay aside a feudal caste system
(p. 9, Wilkerson, I., The Warmth of Other Suns)
