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."
Isabel Wilkerson uses the story of three families to illustrated the complexity and scope of the great migration of blacks out of the south. It is heartbreaking to read of the obstacles that these families met in their journey to escape the oppression of Jim Crow and find hope in the American Dream. I’m not sure of how to address the inequality that exists as a result of these conditions, but I can’t help but feel that we could do more address the challenges that came as a result. This is an important period of time in our Nation’s history that we could all understand better.
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