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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Kilbourn Public Library Book Discussion Group is reading The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson for the July selection.


In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history:  the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the south for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.  From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.


With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals:  Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Pershing Foster.  The Warmth of Other Suns is a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. 


What are the most surprising revelations in the book?


What were the major economic, social, and historical forces that sparked the Great Migration?  Why did blacks leave in such  great numbers from 1915 to 1970?


How did the Great Migration change not only the North but also the South?  How did the South respond to the mass exodus of cheap black labor?


Let us know what you think of The Warmth of Other Suns.

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