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Ep. 42 Isabel Wilkerson, "The Warmth of Other Suns"

Ep. 42 Isabel Wilkerson, "The Warmth of Other Suns"

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December 28, 202119m 43s

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Between 1915 and 1970, six million African Americans moved from the rural South to cities in the North in search of a better life. Author Isabel Wilkerson captured the history of that mass movement, known as the Great Migration, in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Warmth of Other Suns." She sat down with us in 2010 to talk about the book and the approach she took to tell the story.

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