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One of The Brand New York Times Guide Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearIn this epic, superbly created masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the truly amazing untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black people who left the South for northern and western towns, seeking a much better lifestyle. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of nearly six-million people changed the facial skin of America. Wilkerson analyzes this legendary migration for the migrations of different individuals ever. She surveyed greater than a thousand persons, and obtained use of fresh information and official documents, to create this conclusive and strongly remarkable account of how these National trips unfolded, modifying our towns, our nation, and ourselves. With spectacular historic depth, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique persons: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 quit sharecropping and bias in Mississippi for Chicago, where she accomplished peaceful blue-collar achievement and, in senior years, elected for Barack Obama when he went for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled California for Harlem, where he jeopardized his work fighting for civil-rights, noticed his household drop, and ultimately found contentment in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the private doctor to Ray Charles included in a glitteringly effective medical career, which permitted him to buy a great house wherever he frequently put modern parties.Wilkerson superbly catches their first dangerous and tiring cross country excursions by car and practice and their new lives in colonies that became into ghettos, in addition to how they transformed these towns with southern food, religion, and tradition and enhanced them with Self-control, effort, and drive.