The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2011
Pages: 640
ISBN: 978-0679763888

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories 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 official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.