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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration

Isabel Wilkerson (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2010
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Random House, New York, 2010
Biographies
x, 622 pages ; 25 cm
9780679444329, 9781448755936, 9780679763888, 0679444327, 144875593X, 0679763880
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PART ONE In the Land of the Forefathers
1(16)
Leaving
3(5)
The Great Migration, 1915-1970
8(9)
PART TWO Beginnings
17(164)
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
19(17)
The Stirrings of Discontent
36(11)
George Swanson Starling
47(25)
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
72(23)
A Burdensome Labor
95(29)
The Awakening
124(41)
Breaking Away
165(16)
PART THREE Exodus
181(42)
The Appointed Time of Their Coming
183(22)
Crossing Over
205(18)
PART FOUR The Kinder Mistress
223(210)
Chicago
225(2)
New York
227(3)
Los Angeles
230(8)
The Things They Left Behind
238(4)
Transplanted in Alien Soil
242(18)
Divisions
260(25)
To Bend in Strange Winds
285(17)
The Other Side of Jordan
302(30)
Complications
332(19)
The River Keeps Running
351(13)
The Prodigals
364(7)
Disillusionment
371(14)
Revolutions
385(28)
The Fullness of the Migration
413(20)
PART FIVE Aftermath
433(94)
In the Places They Left
435(10)
Losses
445(10)
More North and West Than South
455(10)
Redemption
465(16)
And, Perhaps, to Bloom
481(10)
The Winter of Their Lives
491(25)
The Emancipation of Ida Mae
516(11)
Epilogue527(12)
Notes on Methodology539(6)
Afterword545(2)
Acknowledgments547(8)
Notes555(34)
Index589(32)
Permissions Acknowledgments621