Much of the people, coming out of the south, when they reached their destinations in the north or west wanted one thing: freedom. That freedom came at a price many had to secure a job that sometimes was the lowest paid job, they had to worry about family they left behind, and tried to find their way in the New World. The black immigrants that came from the south were like any other immigrants coming from other countries; they brought their culture and tried to stay together. “As best they could, the people brought the Old Country with them --- a taste for hominy grits and pole beans cooking in salt pork, the “sure enough” and “I reckons” and the superstitions of new moons and itchy palms that had seeped into their very being.” (Wilkerson 240)
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George was very devastated with the outcomes of the civil rights movement knowing he was very much for the freedom of the south, he saw the bombings of the churches and the killing of four girls in a church in Birmingham. While on the train, he saw the faces of the many immigrants leaving the south; he can see the sense of worry of themselves and their family still in south. George thought of his family and friends still in the south seeing and hearing of all the violence that erupting right in their backyard. George managed to help the people back home that had churches burned down, he with other coworkers helped raised money to help rebuild the churches. “With George, it was never the money when it came to these things but the sense of indignation over the injustice of it all and about doing something, anything, and getting other people as roused up about it as he was…” (Wilkerson 381) During the 1960s, the motivation of the civil rights movement finally paid off. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson sighed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which granted that all blacks have the same privilege has any other citizen. “They were not to be segregated in any sphere in life. But it would take time, up to a decade or more, for the message to sink in to those who chose not to recognize the new law.” (Wilkerson
George was very devastated with the outcomes of the civil rights movement knowing he was very much for the freedom of the south, he saw the bombings of the churches and the killing of four girls in a church in Birmingham. While on the train, he saw the faces of the many immigrants leaving the south; he can see the sense of worry of themselves and their family still in south. George thought of his family and friends still in the south seeing and hearing of all the violence that erupting right in their backyard. George managed to help the people back home that had churches burned down, he with other coworkers helped raised money to help rebuild the churches. “With George, it was never the money when it came to these things but the sense of indignation over the injustice of it all and about doing something, anything, and getting other people as roused up about it as he was…” (Wilkerson 381) During the 1960s, the motivation of the civil rights movement finally paid off. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson sighed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which granted that all blacks have the same privilege has any other citizen. “They were not to be segregated in any sphere in life. But it would take time, up to a decade or more, for the message to sink in to those who chose not to recognize the new law.” (Wilkerson