The Warmth of Other Suns

By Robin Miles, Isabel Wilkerson

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

Description: 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.