The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
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The Pequod Review:
The Warmth of Other Suns is an extraordinary collection of oral interviews recounting one of the most significant economic and political events in American history — the migration of 6 million African-Americans from the South to the North between about 1915 and 1970. This is one of the rare cases where the history-from-below perspective is more informative than larger narratives or broader statistics, and provides first-hand accounts of migrants' specific reasons for moving, how Jim Crow laws were enforced in the South, and the racism (of a different kind) they experienced after migrating.