The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkerson, Isabel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.

Rural-urban migration--United States--History--20th century.

Rural-urban migration.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

African Americans--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Black or African American.

Human Migration.

History, 20th Century.

african american.

African Americans--Migrations.

Migration, Internal.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American.

Human Migration.

History, 20th Century.

United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 622 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2010]

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.

Contents:

Part one. In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970.

Part two. Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away.

Part three. Exodus . The appointed time of their coming ; Crossing over.

Part four. 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.

Part five. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-587) and index.

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2010.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, 2011.

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, 2011.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780679444329

0679444327

9781448755936

144875593X

9780679604075

0679604073

9780679763888

0679763880

OCLC:

477270924

Online:

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