The warmth of other suns the epic story of America's great migration
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679604075 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
- ISBN: 0679604073 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (x, 622 p.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | In the land of the forefathers. Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- Beginnings. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- Exodus. The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- The kinder mistress. Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- Aftermath. In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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Subject: | African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century Rural-urban migration -- United States -- History -- 20th century |
Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. Electronic books. |