The warmth of other suns [electronic resource] : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.

Author: Wilkerson, Isabel.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2010.

ISBN: 0679604073 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
9780679604075 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)

Description: 1 online resource (x, 622 p.)

Subject: African Americans Migrations History 20th century.
Migration, Internal United States History 20th century.
Rural-urban migration United States History 20th century.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

Notes: Description based on print version record.

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 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.