This is a magnificent masterpiece written by Wilkerson who previously won a Pulitzer Prize for her work as a journalist. This book chronicles the path millions of Blacks took from southern cities to the north in the largest migration of people in the history of our country. With striking details, she follows the lives of 3 separate individuals who left the segregated & dangerous south looking for better opportunities in the north. I am currently reading this book at this time and it is so interesting, informative and affirming. I am the “family genealogist” and I am making so many connections to my family who lived in the south for generations & were part of that migration leaving Virginia in 1925 for Englewood, NJ.
“Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic. (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190696/the-warmth-of-other-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/)
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