Migration
TED Radio Hour
The Importance of the Great Migration
Without the great migration, there might not have been a Tony Morrison as we now know her to be. Music as we know it was reshaped by the great migration. Miles Davis, his parents were from Arkansas. They migrated to Illinois, southern Illinois. John Coltrane, he migrated at the age of 16 from North Carolina to Philadelphia. Delonius Monk, Michael Jackson, Jesse Owens, Prince, August Wilson,. Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Michelle Obama.
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