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Author Wilkerson, Isabel.
Title The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel Wilkerson.
Alternative Title America's great migration
Epic story of America's great migration
Publisher New York, N.Y. : Random House, c2010.
Edition First edition.


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Descript x, 622 pages ; 25 cm.
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Edition First edition.
Note Originally published: New York : Random House, 2010.
Contents In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae.
ISBN 0679444327 (alk. paper)
0679763880 (paperback)
9780679763888 (paperback)
9780679444329 (alk. paper)
144875593X (hbk.)
9781448755936 (hbk.)
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Author Wilkerson, Isabel.
Subject African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Internal migrants -- United States -- Case studies.
Alternative Title America's great migration
Epic story of America's great migration
Descript x, 622 pages ; 25 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Edition First edition.
Note Originally published: New York : Random House, 2010.
Contents In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae.
ISBN 0679444327 (alk. paper)
0679763880 (paperback)
9780679763888 (paperback)
9780679444329 (alk. paper)
144875593X (hbk.)
9781448755936 (hbk.)
Author Wilkerson, Isabel.
Subject African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Internal migrants -- United States -- Case studies.
Alternative Title America's great migration
Epic story of America's great migration
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  E 185.6 W6  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT
 BJL 4th Floor  E 185.6 W6  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Internal migrants -- United States -- Case studies.
Descript x, 622 pages ; 25 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Note Originally published: New York : Random House, 2010.
Contents In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae.
ISBN 0679444327 (alk. paper)
0679763880 (paperback)
9780679763888 (paperback)
9780679444329 (alk. paper)
144875593X (hbk.)
9781448755936 (hbk.)
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