National Book Critics
Circle Award Winner
A New
York Times Top
10 Best Book of the Year
From World War I to the 1970s,
some six million black Americans
fled the American South for an
uncertain existence in the urban
North and West. They left all
they knew and took a leap of
faith that they might find
freedom under the Warmth of
Other Suns.
Their leaving became known as
the Great Migration. It brought
us James Baldwin, Miles Davis,
John Coltrane, Richard Wright
and the forebears of Michelle
Obama, Toni Morrison and of most
African Americans in the North
and West. It set in motion the
civil rights movement and
created our cities and art
forms.
This is the story of three who
made the journey, of the forces
that compelled them to leave and
of the many others—famous and
not so famous—who went as far as
they could to realize the
American Dream.
Source:
http://isabelwilkerson.com/
