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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 : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
ISBN
9780679444329 (alk. paper) :
9780679604075 (eBook)
0679444327 (alk. paper)
0679604073 (eBook)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Random House, c2010.
Physical Description
x, 622 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) 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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