The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
5/5
Vintage 640 pages September 7, 2010
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the Great Migration — the decades-long exodus of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to northern and western cities. Through three extraordinary personal stories, she reveals one of the most transformative events in American history.
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Jim's Review
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This book knocked Jim flat. Wilkerson spent fifteen years interviewing over a thousand people to tell this story, and it shows on every page. The three personal narratives she follows are so vivid and intimate that Jim felt like he was riding in the car with them as they fled north. It's the kind of history that should be required reading — epic in scope but deeply human in every detail. Five worms, no hesitation.
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