
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
By Morgan Jerkins
May 12
Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing, retraces her ancestors’ journeys in The Great Migration from 1916 to 1970, analyzing the impact the event had on both her own family as well as millions of other black Americans and their descendants in a work that Booklist calls “required reading.”