To dig deeper into these migration phenomena, read The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. To learn more about this historical fact, check out “The Great Migration: Creating a New Black Identity in Los Angeles”. In the early 1900’s, Blacks in the United States migrated from the south to the north, but beginning in the 1940’s, Blacks from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi migrated to California in search of work and a better life. This was during a time referred to as the Second Great Migration (1940-1970). As many Blacks did during this time, the Easy Rawlins character moved from Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas to Watts, California. You will find that the author takes great care of writing the story of the Black experience in southern California. Walter Mosley’s 1990 mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress is the basis of the movie. Now that you’ve watched the movie, you must read the source material. Source Material & Historical informatio n McGhee, there is no upstairs”), Easy finds himself in the midst of lies, murders, and lustful quests for political power. Starting his search at a local illegal nightclub on the second floor of a little market, (“Mr. Eager to make ends meet, he agrees to help an ominous character, DeWitt Albright, with a seemingly simple job of locating a white woman, Daphne Monet, who frequents the company of the black folks in the city. In 1948 Los Angeles, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds himself unemployed as a black World War II veteran.
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