And also, I always ask this question about the religious or spiritual background of someone’s childhood. And I wonder if you could just talk a little bit about that. Tippett: You, yourself, are a child of this Great Migration.
I interviewed Isabel Wilkerson at the 2016 Faith in Literature Festival at the University of North Carolina Asheville. It’s told through the lens of three ordinary lives in three succeeding generations: Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, who moved from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s George Swanson Starling from Florida to New York in the 1940s and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, who went from Louisiana to California in the 1950s. The Warmth of Other Suns is, remarkably, the first comprehensive popular history of the Great Migration. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. And I think that that’s what we’re called upon to do where we are right now.
Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. Whatever you’re ignoring is only going to get worse. And I think that whatever you are ignoring is not going to go away. And you may not want to go into that basement, but if you really don’t go into that basement, it’s at your own peril. And the work is never done.Īnd that’s what our country is like. Isabel Wilkerson: Our country is like a really old house. The Great Migration gave the world a bounty of brilliance - from Michelle Obama and James Baldwin, to Diana Ross and John Coltrane - while also planting harder foundations that continue to touch on every American in some way. She is herself a product of one of the most underreported stories of the 20th century which she chronicles - the exodus or Great Migration of six million African Americans from the south to the north of the United States. It’s a carrier of histories, stories, truths that help make sense of human and social challenges newly visible at the heart of our life together. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson points this out as she reflects on her epic book, The Warmth of Other Suns. Krista Tippett, host: You go to the doctor for anything, and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history - and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you.
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