History
After sit-ins and marches in the South, things were beginning to change. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.…
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Wilkerson
History
Never Made It Back Alive
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
Emmett Till was perhaps the most memorialized Black northerner ever to go south, if only because he never made it back alive. Wilkerson’s stark line places a human face on the terror that shaped the decisions of thousands of families. Memory of such names remains part of telling the truth about the past.
How you’d preach it
A single name that still carries the weight of racial violence and the cost of the Great Migration’s reverse direction.
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