The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a highly acclaimed historical study by Isabel Wilkerson, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. This work tells the story of the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the entire period. It includes the biographies of three persons: a sharecropper's wife who left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago, named Ida Mae Brandon Gladney; an agricultural worker, George Swanson Starling, who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a doctor who left Loui
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a highly acclaimed historical study by Isabel Wilkerson, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. This work tells the story of the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the entire period. It includes the biographies of three persons: a sharecropper's wife who left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago, named Ida Mae Brandon Gladney; an agricultural worker, George Swanson Starling, who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a doctor who left Loui
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