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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Starred Review. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin was falsely accused of stealing a white man's turkeys and was almost beaten to death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling, a … see full wiki

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson

Genre: Non-Fiction, Social Sciences

Publisher: Random House

Date Published: September 7, 2010

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review by ZintaAistars. July 19, 2011

Where the history books leave off ...

The older we get, the more we read, the more we realize that the history textbooks given to us in public schools when we were children left gaping holes where the shadow side of this nation's history should have been. It is only as an adult, independent reader, that I have learned most (if not all) of what I know about American history. And while I had a general idea about the Great Migration—the exodus of about 6 million black Southerners moving north from 1915 to 1970—it was only by reading Isabel … more

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review by florinda_3rs. February 17, 2011

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*The Warmth of Other Suns*, by Isabel Wilkerson

I am the grandchild and great-grandchild of white immigrants to America who came from southern and eastern Europe. This is not my ancestors' story. But it is a story of moving from one homeland to another seeking a better life for oneself and one's children, and of how the "old country" is never truly left behind - and in that respect, it has elements in common with an immigrant story. However, the people Isabel Wilkerson writes about in The Warmth of Other Suns probably … more

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