TY - BOOK AU - Wilkerson,Isabel TI - The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration SN - 9780141995151 AV - E185.6 .W685 2010 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - African Americans KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Migration, Internal KW - United States KW - Rural-urban migration N1 - 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; Access restricted by licensing agreement; Electronic reproduction; Ipswich, MA; Available via World Wide Web ER -