Recommended Age:
18
+
Best for adult readers who enjoy sweeping narrative nonfiction that combines rigorous history with intimate human storytelling across a major episode of American social history.
About the Book
A sweeping history of the Great Migration, in which six million Black Americans left the South for the North and West between 1915 and 1970, told through the lives of three individuals.
Content Ratings
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Intense Themes
Sustained themes of racial terror, systemic discrimination, economic displacement, and the psychological cost of building a new life under continued prejudice.
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Mild Violence
References to racial violence and the threat of lynching as motivators for migration, handled historically.
Engagement:
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2010
Page Count:
622
