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The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Wilkerson, Isabel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearIn 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. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fightin

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Wilkerson, Isabel
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE-UK;Vintage Books
Published
1744
Language
EN
ISBN
9780679763888
Category
history
Subjects
Science, Social Science, Fiction
Rating
4.32 / 5 (32,499 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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