“A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration, The New Yorker
Tina K. Saks
January 8th, 2016

“When I was growing up, my mother, Bette Parks Sacks, often told me stories about her youth in Mississippi. She spoke in a slow, sweet drawl, despite the fact that she’d spent her entire adult life in Chicago. I knew of the hardships and beauty of the South, transmitted to me through vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence.”