THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS

A landmark piece of non fiction Janet Maslin The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize this is one of the great untold stories of American history the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970 an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America With stunning historical detail Pulitzer prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson gives us this definitive vividly dramatic account of how these journeys unfolded Based on interviews with more than a thousand people and access to new data and official records The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of America s Great Migration through the lives of three unique individuals Ida Mae Gladney who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago where she achieved quiet blue collar success and in old age voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat sharp and quick tempered George Starling who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights saw his family fall and finally found peace in God and Robert Foster who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful med