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Making Our Way Home
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream | Blair Imani
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A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected--and continues to affect--Black identity and America as a whole. Making Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights, domestic terrorism, discrimination, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture, activism, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America's workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey.
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I decided as a way to distract myself and to incorporate some sense of organization and control into my life I would put all of my books about Black history, by Black authors and books about Black main characters together. Here‘s the final product. #Blackliterature #Blackstorieshavepower

Amandajoy Who‘s the author of the Loving vs Virginia book? 4y
Skygoddess1 @Amandajoy it‘s by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Shadra Strickland 4y
Amandajoy Thank you! I was thinking last night I wanted to find a book about the case since I know the anniversary of the decision is coming up. Litsy always comes through 😉 4y
Skygoddess1 @Amandajoy You‘re welcome, happy to help! 4y
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