![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has spent fifteen years writing it, but it’s even wrong to say that, because she grew up in it. Her epic work is called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration A pivotal but largely overlooked event in US history, millions of African Americans from the South migrated North during the period of the Great Migration, which began in the 1910s and continued to the 1970s.Īward-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson has spent the last decade researching why so many African Americans decided to leave the towns and farms of the South on such a large scale for her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.ĪMY GOODMAN: We go to part two now with our interview with Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author. ![]()
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