Book Review - 'The Making of African America - The Four Great Migrations,' by Ira Berlin - Review - NYTimes.com

Book Review - 'The Making of African America - The Four Great Migrations,' by Ira Berlin - Review - NYTimes.com
My parents bought their first house in 1960, six years after emigrating from Ireland. They’d grown up with a fierce sense of place — of land, family, history — and they were determined to recreate that sense for their children. That little house in the middle of a non descript block on Detroit’s East Side was going to be their home forever.
THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA
The Four Great Migrations
By Ira Berlin
304 pp. Viking. $27.95
It didn’t work out that way. In the early 1970s the first African-American couple moved into the neighborhood. They were young teachers, I think, though I don’t remember that anyone asked them. Immediately the “for sale” signs began to appear,