Author Examines the Black Migration from the Jim Crow South (9/23/10)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson looks at the "Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970 in her book The Warmth of Other Suns. The migration involved 6 million African-Americans who left the South in search of a better life.
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8 min 27 sec
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