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Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Warmth of Other Suns | Leaving the Jim Crow South


America needs to hear these stories - especially young Americans.

Isabel Wilkerson describes her book The Warmth of Other Suns. Guest NBA star Bill Russell shares his family's story about leaving the Jim Crow South. Check the part with Bill Russell about half way through. He describes segregation vs integration and migration vs immigration - about moving out of the Jim Crow South; and about how his family moved from no education to Harvard education.


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