The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is a groundbreaking work of nonfiction by renowned journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Combining reporting, historical research, and oral history, Wilkerson masterfully weaves together an account of the vast migration African Americans from the south to the north that took place in America between 1915 and 1970.
Wilkerson states that the book is "essentially three projects in one." It contains excerpts from the hundreds of interviews Wilkerson conducted with participants in the Great Migration, distills those narratives to focus on three main characters, and incorporates meticulous research into historical documents and...
