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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
- Title
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
- Author
- Wilkerson, Isabel.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2010]
- ©2010
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- Description
- x, 622 pages; 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.
- Subjects
- Migration, Internal
- Rural-urban migration
- African Americans > Migrations
- Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- 1900-1999
- Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies
- HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
- Black author
- African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century
- HISTORY > African American
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) and index.
- Awards (note)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2011.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010.
- 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 coming ; 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 10-1442
- ISBN
- 9780679444329
- 0679444327
- LCCN
- 2009049753
- OCLC
- 477270924
- Author
- Wilkerson, Isabel.
- Title
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) and index.
- Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2011.National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 10-1442