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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Henry Kisor: [QB] Isabel Wilkerson's new book "The Warmth of Other Suns" (one of the 10 best books of 2010 in the estimation of the New York Times Book Review) describes one such trip north from Mississippi on the old IC during the Great Migration. According to a Pullman porter on one such run, Jim Crow ended at Cairo, Illinois, where black passengers were permitted to sit anywhere on the train. I'm not sure of either train or year, however; it probably came after the conditions GBN describes, and probably involved non-luxury trains. I recommend this book to everyone. It's a gripping testimonial to human endurance and is extraordinarily readable. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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