Isabel Wilkerson University of Kansas Eliot illustrates the patterns —

Eliot illustrates the patterns — and peculiarities — of the people inhabiting her fictional town of Middlemarch

In her obituary

she dropped out because it did not intellectually challenge her

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Isabel Wilkerson University of Kansas Eliot illustrates the patterns —From 1915 to 1970, almost six million African Americans left the South in search of better economic opportunities and a higher quality of life. It was one of the largest internal migrations in history and had a profound effect on the culture and politics of this country. To better understand this monumental yet underdocumented event, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Isabel Wilkerson spent 15 years and interviewed more than 1,000 people researching and