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"From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail,...
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Get the Summary of Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns in 20 minutes.
Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive,...
3) Summary of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Book Summary Readtrepreneur
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book, but an unofficial summary.)
This book is an untold story of the hardships black citizens had to endure in the last century and how they managed to look for a better life fleeing from their hometowns. The Warmth of Other Suns tells us the story through the eyes of three black citizens who...
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Summary Bundle: History Readtrepreneur Publishing: Includes Summary of The Vietnam War & Summary of The Warmth of Other Suns
The war that continuously haunts the United States of America even 40 years after its culmination through the eyes of the people who were involved in it. The book does its best to dive in the intensity of combat and give us everything any person wants to know about the Vietnam War. It's definitely a must-read for all history...
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"Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and...
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"We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and...
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