Why so few black male physicians? One answer can be found in the story of Dr. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a remarkable surgeon who escaped LA for L.A. In CA, he found patients who loved him, singers who sang his praises, and yet he was shadowed by Jim Crow. It is one of many remarkable stories Wilkerson tells about the Black Americans who moved North and West in search of freedom. Reading this, I one cried over and over.