In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles among the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, searching for an improved life.

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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 various other peoples ever sold. She interviewed greater than a thousand people, and obtained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic accounts of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our towns, our nation, 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 later years, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharpened and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil privileges, saw his family members fall, and finally found peacefulness in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical profession, the personal doctor to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to get a grand home where he frequently threw exuberant celebrations.

Wilkerson brilliantly catches their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country travels by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, aswell as how they changed these towns with southern meals, faith, and culture and improved them with self-discipline, drive, and effort. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is normally a bold, impressive, and riveting function, a superb account of the “unrecognized immigration” in your own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the composing, the depth of its study, as well as the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this publication is destined to become classic.