Comments on: Minority Report: The Great Migration to The Warmth of Other Suns

By: Toni Asante Lightfoot Director of Workshops

Toni Asante Lightfoot Director of Workshops — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:34:08 +0000

This is a portion of the history of the United States of America and should therefore be taught as part of the history of the United States of America. The political impact of these great artists, inventors, educators, lawyers, doctors, preachers, writers, and common folk on the development of the entire USA has not been studied enough. This book is a great addition to the paucity of work that has been done and I look forward to many more works for each city, state, region, and the whole country. As African-Americans are not the only group affected by our history we are not be the only demographic this book can educate.

By: Harriet Luckett

Harriet Luckett — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:32:19 +0000

This is one of the best book that I have read, and it was well written. I have told many, many people to read it. Any black person whose family was not born in the north was affected by the great migration. It should be a must read in every high school attended by black students.

By: Loisteen Walker

Loisteen Walker — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:45:10 +0000

It was truly a well written book which shed much light on the southern migration period. I am a migrant baby, whose parents sought a better life in the North. I was 9 months old when they fled the South to Chicago. Even though they migrated North searching for better opportunities, they continued to make the trek back South every summer.I remember those trips South, which my brothers and I enjoyed every moment. We had no idea of what an undertaking it was for my mother to keep us intact and warned not to take our City habits with us. I remember an incident on the train which involved 2 Caucasion elderly ladies, the conductor and my mother. It was not until I was an adult, that I realized that we could have been hurt because my mother would not back down regarding our seats. Reading this book, brought back those memories.On each journey back North at the end of the summer, we always brought a relative back with us, until they could “get on their feet”. My father told me stories about sharecropping and as much family history that he knew before he passed. However, this book made me hunger for more information from him, particularly about what he endured and why he and his siblings fled. It made me really appreciate the history I have collected from my family.