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Book
Title:
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
ISBN:
9780679444329

9781448755936

9780679763888
Publication:
New York : Random House, [2010]
Physical Description:
x, 622 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part one. In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970. -- Part two. Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away. -- Part three. Exodus . The appointed time of their coming ; Crossing over. -- Part four. 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. -- Part five. 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.
Summary:
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.
Program Information:
Reading Counts RC High School 9.5 43 Quiz: 54825.
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