The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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From 1915 to 1970, nearly six million African Americans fled the segregated South in search of freedom and opportunity, fundamentally reshaping the nation's cities and culture in what Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson calls an "unrecognized immigration" within America itself. Through meticulous research and intimate interviews with over a thousand migrants, Wilkerson weaves together the powerful true stories of three individuals—Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster—whose journeys from Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana to Chicago, Harlem, and beyond illuminate the hopes, struggles, and triumphs of an entire generation. With stunning historical detail and lyrical prose, she captures both the harrowing realities of their cross-country travels and the profound ways these migrants transformed their new cities through culture, faith, and unwavering determination. This epic masterwork stands as a definitive account of one of American history's most consequential yet overlooked movements, revealing how ordinary people's extraordinary courage reshaped the nation's identity. A riveting blend of intimate biography and sweeping historical narrative, The Warmth of Other Suns is destined to become a classic of American letters.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2020
504 pages
ISBN: 9780141995168
paperback
Random House
Published Sep 7, 2010
641 pages
ISBN: 9780679444329
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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