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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
★ 4.4 (109 Ratings)
◷ 25 Minutes
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The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) tells the story of the Great Migration – the biggest inner-border mass migration in US history. From 1915 to 1970, millions of Black Americans left the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in Northern cities. Focusing on the lives of three of those migrants, these abstracts paint a vivid picture of the fears, hopes, and dreams that shaped the movement.
About the author
Isabel Wilkerson is an award-winning American author and journalist. In 1994, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Her second and latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was published in 2020.
Who might enjoy this content?
- Curious minds who want to learn about an underexplored chapter of US history
- Fans of biographical and eyewitness accounts of the past
- Anyone interested in the social and demographic forces that shaped America
