The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration

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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. She interviewed more than a thousand individuals, and gained access to new data and offical records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. - Back cover.

subjects: New York Times bestseller,  nyt:hardcover_nonfiction=2010-09-05,  African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century,  Rural-urban migration,  History,  African Americans,  Internal Migration,  Migrations,  African americans, history,  Migration, internal,  New York Times reviewed,  African americans--migrations--history,  African americans--migrations--history--20th century,  Migration, internal--history,  Migration, internal--united states--history--20th century,  Rural-urban migration--history,  Rural-urban migration--united states--history--20th century,  E185.6 .w685 2010,  304.80973,  nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2011-10-15,  Binnenwanderung,  Schwarze,  HISTORY / African American,  Historia,  Migration,  Urbanisering,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,  Afro-amerikaner,  HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,  Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970,  Human Migration,  History, 20th Century,  Exode rural,  Histoire,  Noirs américains,  Médecine,  African American,  United States,  Society

People: Ida Mae Gladney,  Barack Obama (1961-),  George Starling,  Robert Foster

Places: United States,  Mississippi,  Chicago,  Illinois,  Florida,  Harlem,  Louisiana

Times: 20th century,  1915-1970,  1937,  1945,  1953