Format:
Book
Title:
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of america's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel.
Call Number:
304.80973 Wilkerso
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
Description:
x, 622 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Wellington Webb collection
Contents:
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 crossing ; 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 Ma
ISBN:
9780679763888 (trade)
0679444327
9780679444329 (alk. paper)