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. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of
other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people,
and gained access to new data and official records, to write this
definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys
unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
With
stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives
of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left
sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she
achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack
Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered
George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he
endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and
finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in
1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles
as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him
to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
Wilkerson
brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting
cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies
that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with
southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline,
drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns
is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an
“unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of
its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and
the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is
destined to become a classic.
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