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The warmth of other suns the epic story of America's great migration
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The warmth of other suns [electronic resource] : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
ISBN
9780679763888
0679763880
9780679604075
0679604073
Edition
First Vintage Books, edition.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( x, 622 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Other formats
Print version: Wilkerson, Isabel. Warmth of other suns. First Vintage Bks, edition, October 2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970
Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away
Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over
The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration
Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae.
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