![]() I do feel like I learned some valuable things, but the process to do so was difficult at times. 1955 were very different times, and I felt my brain had to juggle this, as she bounced around from story to story. I also felt a little thrown off by the timing, as her three first-person accounts migrated in three different decades. THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICAS GREAT MIGRATION by Isabel Wilkerson RELEASE DATE: Sept. It felt important to fully understand why it could be dangerous, even life-threatening to stay in the South, but there was some pretty graphic violence. The first part goes into some really intense details about the horrors Black Americans faced in the Jim Crow South. ![]() But I found the overall reading experience challenging. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson, Random, 30 (768p) ISBN 978-2-9 Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, left. The information was skillfully woven together. The core of her research is in first-person accounts, but she supplements this beautifully with census data, advertiments from the era, newspaper articles, sociology studies, poetry, and novels. She has meticulously researched the subject, and I value her wide range of source material. ![]() ![]() ![]() I really appreciate how much work went into this nonfiction work about the Great Migration. ![]()
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