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message 1: by Lucky (last edited Feb 26, 2013 06:51PM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

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'All over Philadelphia the people rose in the crackling cold to stroke the furnaces in their basements. They were united in these harships' - Philadelphia and Jubilee

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West for most of the 20th century. (Source: Wikipedia)

Could it be Mathis is trying to explain that all across Philadelphia the color of your skin didn't matter and that hardships we bourne and accepted irrelevant of the color of their skin?

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