The warmth of other suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER &; NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER &; NAMED ONE OF TIME&;S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED&;S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE &;A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.&;&;John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times &;USA Today &; O: The Oprah Magazine &; Publishers Weekly &; Salon &; Newsday &;The Daily Beast In this 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. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.Wilkerson brilliantly 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. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an &;unrecognized immigration&; within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker &; The Washington Post &; The Economist &; Boston Globe &; San Francisco Chronicle &; Chicago Tribune &; Entertainment Weekly &; Philadelphia Inquirer &; The Guardian &; The Seattle Times &; St. Louis Post-Dispatch &; The Christian Science Monitor 
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Subjects
20th Century
20th Century -- United States
African American
African American -- HISTORY
African American Nonfiction
African Americans
African Americans -- Migrations
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
African American Studies
African American Studies -- Ethnic Studies
Electronic books
Emigration & Immigration
History
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Migration, Internal
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Migrations
Nonfiction
Rural-urban migration
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
United States
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title_full | The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [electronic resource] Wilkerson, Isabel. The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The warmth of other suns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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