"The Warmth of Other Suns," by Isabella Wilkerson tells the story of the movement of over six million African American men and women from the southern states to northern states during the era known as the Great Migration. Wilkerson, who is a product of this journey herself, wrote The Warmth of Other Suns not only to inform but to humanize the Great Migration. She interviewed over 1,200 people and dedicated over fifteen years of research to tell the epic story of the movement of an entire people. .
Wilkerson focused the book on three characters, Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster. She chose these characters because each represented on of the three major streams of the Great Migration, the East coast, the Midwest and the West coast. They each had a different story to tell; they each came from a different decade, and people could identify with their stories. If I had the pleasure of meeting Isabel Wilkerson, I would like to know why she was so devoted in getting this story out in the world and when her interest was first peaked on the Great Migration.
The characters in the book each had their different reasons for leaving the South, but each had a common goal which was to find better opportunities for themselves in the North. Ida Mae Gladney, the wife of a poor sharecropper and mother of three, was told by her husband George that they were leaving Mississippi after a cousin down the road was nearly beaten to death when he was falsely accused of stealing a few of a white man's turkeys. In 1937, they boarded a train to Illinois and settled in Chicago. George Swanson Starling, the valedictorian of his "colored" high school class in central Florida, had dropped out of college when his money ran out and gone to work picking citrus in the fields. Disgusted by the conditions, he tried to organize a work stoppage when a friend warned him that the local growers, backed by a homicidal sheriff, were planning to lynch him.
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Isabella was born in the town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres on April 22, 1451. ... Through her life Isabella did many great things for the Catholic faith. ... Many disputes and negotiations took place for Isabella's hand in marriage. ... Isabella had a great part in the conquest of Granada in 1492. ... Isabella died in 1504 leaving behind a great legacy, never to be outdone. ...
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