O Magazine's September Book Reviews
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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By Isabel Wilkerson 640 pages; Random House Between 1915 and 1970, as lynching became public spectacle, as a nicely dressed black woman might be arrested for "acting white," as black sections of towns were burned down or terrorized, black sharecroppers and surgeons quietly fled the South for New York City, Detroit, Oakland—as far as they could possibly go. Read more |
