The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)

from nittnut

Isabel Wilkerson, herself a child of parents who left the South for a better life up North, said she wrote this book "because of what I saw as incomplete perceptions, outside of scholarly circles, of what the Great Migration was and how and why it happened, particularly through the eyes of those ...

from dchaikin

25. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson reader: Robin Miles published: 2010 format: digital audiobook (22:42) acquired: from audible, on March 30, because of an essay by Jill Lepore read: Mar 31 - May 8 rating: 5 stars I was really carried awa...

from lisapeet

Finally had my second library hold come through so I could finish the last 50 pages, and I'm glad I held out. This is a really remarkable piece of journalism and writing. Aside from the enormous breadth of the story Wilkerson is telling—about the deep injustices of the Jim Crow South, this enormo...

from lauralkeet

I came of age during the latter part of the 20th century, a period that is only now becoming "history" that can be explored and analyzed. The Warmth of Other Suns is an in-depth account of the Great Migration (1916-1970), when a large population of black Americans resettled from the south to the ...

from brenzi

"In the end, it could be said that the common denominator for leaving was the desire to be free, like the Declaration of Independence said, free to try out for most any job they pleased, play checkers with whomever they chose, sit where they wished on the streetcar, watch their children walk acro...