The Warmth of Other Suns

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.

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  Chicago · United States

  Destination of Ida Mae Gladney's Great Migration journey from Mississippi — one of three real stories traced
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• New York City · United States

  Destination of George Starling's Great Migration journey from Florida
• Los Angeles · United States

  Destination of Robert Pershing Foster's Great Migration journey from Louisiana