The Warmth of Other Suns

special compelling invitation

not ending until the social, political, and economic reasons for the Migration began truly to be addressed in the South in the dragged-out, belated response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

of the migrants’ own accord.

the citizenship they deserved by their ancestry and labors alone

The South may have acted like a different country and been proud of it, but it was a part of the United States

the Migration, in some ways, was its own point

instead of the machines displacing labor, they were used to replace the labor that had left the farm.

the number of lynchings in the South declined in each successive decade of the Great Migration as the number of black departures went up. Though the violence would continue into the 1960s and there were many factors that figured into that form of vigilantism, it took less than a decade of migration to begin making a difference.

Her success was spiritual, perhaps the hardest of all to achieve.

If anything, the scholars found, the migrants who stumbled were brought down by the conditions of the northern cities, not the other way around.