Reading a history book recently, James Lofton said he enjoyed all three of the main characters, none famous, all highly persistent.
Lofton, a 63-year old former NFL and track star who lives in San Diego, said the masterful storytelling of author Isabel Wilkerson in “The Warmth of Other Suns” gave him a better sense of the immense obstacles his own parents may have faced in the same time — between 1915 and 1970 — when almost six million black Americans fled the South for northern and western cities.
Not that the South had a monopoly on racially rigged systems, as many black migrants would discover, but even several decades after slavery ended, inequality of opportunity was vast and generational.