Summary Of The Warmth Of Other Suns

Published in 2010, The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping ethnography of the Great Migration-the mass exodus of African-Americans from the South to Northern and Western US cities dating from approximately 1914-1970. The book traces the history of racism in the Jim Crow South as well as the reasons, successes, and failures of those African-Americans who left the place of their birth in order to seek better economic and social opportunities elsewhere in the United States.