I just finished reading The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. It is an amazing story about the mass migration of blacks fleeing to the North and West in order to escape the horrors of the Jim Crow south. This work of non-fiction highlights the stories of three unrelated individuals, Ida Mae Gladney, Robert Foster, and George Starling in their journeys from Mississippi to Chicago, Louisiana to Los Angeles, and Florida to New York City, respectively.
This is not an easy book to read - in many levels. The content of the story includes details of lynchings and massacres in the south and the northern race riots. I strongly recommend if you are interested in broaden your sense of American culture.
We just added more books to our Black History collection. Stop by the library to check them out!
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