Although it is good to read about people's personal encounters with living under Jim Crow, about the difficulties in leaving the South and settling somewhere else, this book is still inherently flawed: the author makes many factual mistakes that any decent editor or fact-checker could have corrected, she relies heavily on very outdates sources for statistical data and focuses too much on three individuals. If she instead had focused on about a dozen people, she could have given a much broader and diverse view of the Great Migration and spared the reader her overwritten language and inane descriptions of matters that are insignificant to the larger background of the Migration.
Still, there are important stories in this book: challenges migrants overcame while moving out of the South, starting life anew, but also descriptions of lynchings that are too important to not describe, even in a flawed, and only semi-historical work.