—The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s—
The Non-fiction Feature
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 640 | 2011
All told, perhaps the most significant measure of the Great Migration was the act of leaving itself, regardless of the individual outcome.
Despite the private disappointments and triumphs of any individual migrant, the Migration, in some ways, was its own point. The achievement was in making the decision to be free and acting on that decision, wherever that journey led them.
The Poetry Spot
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad, Editor
That is the South.
And I, who am black, would love her
But she spits in my face. And I, who am black,
Would give her many rare gifts
But she turns her back upon me. ? So now I seek the North–
The cold-faced North,
For she, they say,
Is a kinder mistress,
And in her house my children
May escape the spell of the South.
The Product Spot
PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)
A film about why black Southerners sought to leave, the North’s role in the migration, and the factors that led to the migration.