The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration
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New York : Random House, [2010].
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Book
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First edition.
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x, 622 pages ; 25 cm
Rating:
1160
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Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals. Wilkerson captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. A superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.
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ISBN:
9780679444329 (hardcover : alkaline paper), 0679444327 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
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"National Book Critics Circle Award Winner" --Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [555]-587) and index.
Description
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals. Wilkerson captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. A superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.
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Wilkerson, I. (2010). The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration. First edition. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wilkerson, Isabel. 2010. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Random House, 2010.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. First edition. Random House, 2010.
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| 505 | 0 | |a In the land of the forefathers. Leaving -- The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney -- The stirrings of discontent -- George Swanson Starling -- Robert Joseph Pershing Foster -- A burdensome labor -- The Awakening -- Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their coming -- Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago -- New York -- Los Angeles -- The things they left behind -- Transplanted in alien soil -- Divisions -- To bend in strange winds -- The other side of Jordan -- Complications -- The river keeps running -- The prodigals -- Disillusionment -- Revolutions -- The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left -- Losses -- More North and West than South -- Redemption -- And, perhaps, to bloom -- The winter of their lives -- The emancipation of Ida Mae -- Epilogue. | |
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