The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration /

Title:

The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration /

Author:

Wilkerson, Isabel.

Published:

New York : c2010.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emmanuel College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Lesley Sherrill, Emerson College

Contents:

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.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
E185.6 .W685 2010 – 1 of 2 available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for LI204 -3: Urban Experience in Modern Lit (Writing, Literature, and Publishing: Kukrechtova)
• Overdue, Lost (due 05-01-2019 at 11:59 PM)

Emmanuel Main Stacks
E185.6 .W685 2010 – Unavailable

• Renewed (due 12-20-2019 at 05:00 PM)

Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
E185.6 .W685 2010 – Available

Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
973.0496073 .W54 2010 – Available