![]() ![]() I felt I knew them well by the end of the book. Second, it’s a nonfiction narrative about three main characters: Ida Mae, George, and Robert. And also Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Oakland, and dozens of others. Wilkerson, a New York Times journalist interviewed nearly 1,200 people over the span of a decade to learn the personal stories of individuals and families who decided to leave the poverty, injustice, and terror of the post-Reconstruction American South for opportunities in northern and western cities: Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. ![]() This book, as Wilkerson says in an insightful afterward, is really three projects in one:įirst, it’s an oral history. It illuminates important paths-geographical, social, political-of American history on the national and personal scale. “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” fills in a gap in American history, giving a comprehensive account of movement of millions of Black Americans from the South to the North and West, 1915-1970. I’m not going to review Isabel Wilkerson’s phenomenal book so much as I’ll review what I learned from it. ![]()
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