The warmth of other suns [electronic resource] : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
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,...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 246 | 2 | |a The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | |
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| 260 | |a New York : |b Random House, |c c2010. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 coming ; 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Rural-urban migration |z United States |x History |y 20th century. | |
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