The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

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.