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

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, 622 pages, History. We read this for our Wednesday night book group at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. It is a fantastic book, an epic chronicling the events that affected millions of Americans, based on thousands of interviews, but focused through a lens of three individuals. The great migration of African-Americans, from the South United States to the North, began during World War I, when the need for labor in northern factories was intense, and continued on through the 1970s. Almost six-million people moved, changing America in countless ways, and leading to many of the great social shifts that occurred during the twentieth century. Wilkerson is informative, a sympathetic listener, and an eminently readable writer of non-fiction. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for general nonfiction, you should definitely read this one.

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