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Warmth of Other Suns (Hardcover)

The Epic Story of America`s Great Migration

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    In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and t......more

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In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families. 75,000 first printing.

Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel
ISBN:
9780679444329
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
622
Publish Date:
09/07/2010
Publisher:
Random House, Inc.
Language:
English

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  • GREAT BOOK

    I am so glad this book was recommended to me. I haven't read a book in a while and this one I could not put down. The plight that Black people have endured and in some cases still endure highlights the strong spirit of our people. Definitely a great read.

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  • Starred ReviewIda Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin was falsely accused of stealing a white man's turkeys and was almost beaten to death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling, a citrus picker," fled Florida for Harlem after learning of the grove owners' plans to give him a ""necktie party"" (a lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster made his trek from Louisiana to California in 1953"," embittered by ""the absurdity that he was doing surgery for the United States Army and couldn't operate in his own home town."" Anchored to these three stories is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wilkerson's magnificent"," extensively researched study of the ""great migration"," the exodus of six million black Southerners out of the terror of Jim Crow to an ""uncertain existence"" in the North and Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates sociological and historical studies into the novelistic narratives of Gladney", Starling, and Pershing settling in new lands, building anew, and often finding that they have not left racism behind. The drama, poignancy, and romance of a classic immigrant saga pervade this book, hold the reader in its grasp, and resonate long after the reading is done. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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