You will realize how much you don’t know and were not taught of the Great Migration when you read this book. Isabel Wilkerson provides a comprehensive view on how the Great Migration and the six million Black people that fled the South to the North over ~65 years defines much of the societal make-up and trends of the 20th Century. The first half is hard to read but a triumph in narrative. The second half loses some drive and starts becoming repetitive. When it’s such a long book, it would’ve helped to cut the repetitive parts and make it more concise. But overall, this is such a triumph of a misunderstood yet highly influential era in American history.