“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.” IfsMeanMotherFatherParentMetsSouthernRomeVirginiaGeorgiaMigrationAirmen Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.” ChildrenEyeFatherWhiteCrimeTownsSouthernAssociates Author:Lee De Forest
“My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.” MenYearsFatherSouthernRailroads Author:Nancy Grace