“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change – the whites-only signs came down, the all-white schools opened up, and everyone could vote. By then nearly half of all black Americans – some forty-seven percent – would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began.”

“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change – the whites-only signs came down, the all-white schools opened up, and everyone could vote. By then nearly half of all black Americans – some forty-seven percent – would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began.”

— Isabel Wilkerson