The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson · first published 2010
100% recommend
Why HN recommends it
Narrative history of the Great Migration told through the lives of individual families who moved north and west; useful for readers who want to fill gaps in their understanding of American race history and migration.
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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,
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