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marlasmirkingrevenge's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
jreid00's review against another edition
4.0
I bought this for my nephew, but it's definitely staying at my house. Black history laid out out in an informative and engaging way. Me and my nephew both learned some new things from reading this, and he walked away with his head held a little bit higher.
kristinisreading's review
3.0
Nothing specifically labeled this as YA or children’s book, but it is written in a plain style that seems like that was the intended audience. The pictures are wonderful and the sweep through post Civil War America into the 1970s shows some of the key movements that occurred. Personally, I’m reluctant to rate a YA book on my own terms, I found this overly simplistic, but there is no indication I could find from the publisher to warn that this was YA level content, which was frustrating.
weirdypants's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
3.5
A good starter look at The Great Migration. I was hoping that Blair Imani would be the narrator; I’m sorry to say that Chocolate Rain Guy as the narrator didn’t do it for me.
jg12389's review
4.0
A great book that gives readers an accessible and easy-to-follow history of the great migration. Love the author's work on social media. A great read!
punchofwishes's review against another edition
3.0
I’m a little conflicted about this book. Obviously the history relayed in it is important and serves a great purpose, educating the masses. The art included is beautiful and I enjoyed learning more about these facets of American history. But I found the execution to be less than satisfying. There are a lot of repetitions throughout and a lack of consistent narrative, which may very well be acceptable for a history book, but made for a lesser reading experience. My biggest gripe however, which lowered the book from the 4 star range to the 3.5 it ended up with are the excessive detours on other historical topics, especially Native American Rights, Queer Rights and Feminism. I gladly read about all of these struggles and I appreciated the intersections, but this is a book about African American history and specifically the Great Migration and it’s consequences, not every civil rights struggle throughout the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth century. I really wanted to love this book more than I did, but the author’s execution left me wanting more.