Isabel Wilkerson: "Pada awal abad ke-20, sebelum migrasi dimulai, 90 p...

"Pada awal abad ke-20, sebelum migrasi dimulai, 90 persen dari semua orang Afrika-Amerika tinggal di Selatan. Pada akhir Migrasi Hebat, hampir setengah dari mereka tinggal di luar Selatan di kota-kota besar di Utara dan Barat. Jadi ketika migrasi ini dimulai, Anda memiliki sangat sedikit orang yang tinggal di Utara dan mereka bertahan sebagai portir atau pembantu rumah tangga atau pengkhotbah - beberapa telah naik ke tingkat pekerjaan profesional - tetapi mereka, dalam beberapa hal, dilindungi karena mereka sangat kecil."

--- Isabel Wilkerson

Versi Bahasa Inggris

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.