![]() The Great Migrationīeginning in about 1915 and continuing into the 1970’s, about six million black American’s, slave descendants, left the south in search of something safer and better. But because of this attention to detail the reader is transported to another time in American history, the great migration of blacks from the south to points north and west during Jim Crowe. The remarkable years of research Wilkerson undertook for both books is staggering. ![]() You don’t need to read Caste to understand the story being told in The Warmth of Other Suns, but I do recommend both books very highly. Here is my book review The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. And now I’ve discovered Wilkerson’s other work (2010), a look at a remarkable time in American history that nobody really has talked about or written about. It was one of my favorite reads last year. ![]() Not quite a year ago on our California road trip we listened to Wilkerson’s astonishing work, Caste. ![]()
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