TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilkerson,Isabel
TI  - The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration 
SN  - 9780679444329 (alk. paper)
AV  - E185.6 .W685 2010
U1  - 304.80973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Migrations
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - United States
KW  - Rural-urban migration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) and index; 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 coming ; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -