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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: The Great Migration had diverse causes, roots, and destinations.
Chapter 2: Ida Mae and her family left their Mississippi farm seeking better wages and safety.
Chapter 3: George Starling left Florida to escape persecution over labor organizing.
Chapter 4: Pershing Foster left Louisiana to further his career without the Jim Crow restrictions there.
Chapter 5: In Chicago, Ida Mae became part of the emerging urban Black working class.
Chapter 6: As a train attendant in New York, George observed the Great Migration firsthand.
Chapter 7: In L.A., Robert built a strong reputation as a renowned and respected physician there.
Chapter 8: For many Black Southerners, the North was not the carefree land they dreamed.
Chapter 9: For many Black Southerners, leaving the South expressed their sense of freedom.
Description
The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) tells the story of the Great Migration – the biggest inner-border mass migration in US history. From 1915 to 1970, millions of Black Americans left the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in Northern cities. Focusing on the lives of three of those migrants, these blinks paint a vivid picture of the fears, hopes, and dreams that shaped the movement.
Who Should Listen
- Curious minds who want to learn about an underexplored chapter of US history
- Fans of biographical and eyewitness accounts of the past
- Anyone interested in the social and demographic forces that shaped America