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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration /
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,...
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New York :
Random House,
[2010]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents View cover image provided by Mackin Additional information at Google Books https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/columbia/detail.action?docID=6069958 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one.
- In the land of the forefathers.
- Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970.
- Part two.
- Beginnings.
- Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away.
- Part three.
- Exodus .
- The appointed time of their coming ; Crossing over.
- Part four.
- 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.
- Part five.
- 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.