Is this book true stories or are they fictional narratives?
All true stories. This is a non-fiction book. This is the synopsis:
With historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to
Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
The book took her about 10-15 years of research and it’s extremely accurate and well written. You get to see the fate of the lives each of these individuals once leaving the South and what their lives became. And each of them moved to cities that built up substantial black populations even to this day from the Great Migration, so it’s dope to see their stories in detail. You don’t get bored. A monument of a book and if you’re interested in this topic, an absolute must have. I’m a Canadian bruh but I think this a book every breh should have on their book shelf, even if you take a couple years to actually get around reading it lol.
