The book is about the migration experiences of three people, who become representative of the larger whole, which was, essentially the defection of 60 million africanamericans from the south to the north, to the midwest and the west, from 1915, world war i, until 1970, when the south began truly to change. I went to a movie last weekend and they handed me this as im going into the movie. Wont tell you what it was but i want to read it to you. Every day more migrants are coming into the cities to seek a better life for their children. The scale of this massive migration from the poor countryside to the burgeoning cities is unprecedented in human history. The migrants provide a constant and cheap source of labor for excountries booming cities and the thriving economy is built on the backs of those citizens. Do you have any idea what country that is . Well it could be almost any, it could be any country but im thinking the United States and southerners. But i wrote this book with the idea
The park so its been with me all this time. But i think when it comes to the actual writing of the book it probably started very likely after i had gotten out and then a reporter for the New York Times and started to talk to people in other parts of the country. I was the Chicago Bureau chief for the New York Times and i would be in chicago and cleveland and detroit in that began to hear there were similar experiences people head. Nobody talked about it as a migration experience. There was just talk about it as well i cant talk about it. This weekend we will have to go back to mississippi where theres a Family Reunion or a funeral i have to go to. We began to connect the dots and realize it was so much bigger than my connection to their experience in chicago with an national outpouring of people. Cspan give us a brief synopsis of what the book is about. Guest the book is about the migration experiences of three people who become representative of a larger whole which was essentially th
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