05391cam a2200769 4500 563970704 TxAuBib 20220626120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679604075 0679604073 B003EY7JGM Amazon ead27197-6300-4f6b-83b2-b921d8ddee66 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 457558 OverDrive (Product ID) 190696 190696 190696 TxAuBib Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns [Libby] : The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. us history. american history. vintage. amazon. History. MP3. best sellers. history books. pulitzer prize winning books. black authors. african american books. blm. history books for adults. black history books. gifts for her. non fiction best sellers. black books. good books for women. black authors best sellers. books by black authors. great on kindle. first time dad gifts. nonfiction books best sellers. best biographies of all time. best books of all time. best nonfiction books 2021. the warmth of other suns. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3585kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Sociology. African American Nonfiction. Nonfiction. HTML:NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste 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. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.   With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. 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. . Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award. Notable Books for Adults. 10 Best Books of 2010. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EAD/271/97/WarmthofOtherSunsTheEpicStoryofAmeric9780679604075.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EAD27197-6300-4F6B-83B2-B921D8DDEE66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EAD/271/97/WarmthofOtherSunsTheEpicStoryofAmeric9780679604075.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EAD27197-6300-4F6B-83B2-B921D8DDEE66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/EAD/271/97/WarmthofOtherSunsTheEpicStoryofAmeric9780679604075.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EAD27197-6300-4F6B-83B2-B921D8DDEE66&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)