With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells the Story of the decades-long Migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, from 1915 to 1970, through the lives of three unique individuals.
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and.
With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this Story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
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.
Wilkerson compares this Epic Migration to the migrations of Other peoples in history.
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.--John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times -USA Today - O: The Oprah Magazine - Publishers Weekly - Salon - Newsday -The Daily Beast In this 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.
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME\'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED\'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE A brilliant and stirring Epic .
With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells the Story of the decades-long Migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, from 1915 to 1970, through the lives of three unique individuals
