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The Mini Manifesto on “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

In a sweeping and deeply emotional narrative, Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns shines a light on the Great Migration, revealing the untold stories of millions of African Americans who fled the South in search of a better life.

Rich Brown
3 min readAug 8, 2023
A dilapidated sharecropper’s shack in the rural South.
A dilapidated sharecropper’s shack in the rural South.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a groundbreaking work of non-fiction that explores the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West between 1915 and 1970. Through extensive research and interviews,

Wilkerson brings to life the experiences of three individuals who made this arduous journey, capturing the hopes, dreams, and struggles of those who sought to escape the oppressive Jim Crow laws and racial violence of the South.

The book revolves around the stories of Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Pershing Foster, who represent the millions of…

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