Format:
Book
Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel.
Title:
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House, c2010.
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.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes:
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.
LCCN:
2009049753
ISBN:
9780679444329
0679444327
9780679763888 (pbk.)
Other Number:
477270924
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
273560
Call Number:
973.0496073 Wilkerso
Course Reserves:
0
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