Wilkerson, Isabel.

The warmth of other suns the epic story of America's great migration / [electronic resource] : Isabel Wilkerson. - First Vintage Books, edition. - 2010 - 1 volume ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Ipswich, MA
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9780141995151 0679763880 9780679604075 0679604073 9780679763888

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1900 - 1999


African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Migration, Internal--History--United States--20th century.
Rural-urban migration--History--United States--20th century.

E185.6 / .W685 2010