Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel.
Edition Statement:1 st ed.
Imprint:New York : Random House, c2010.
Descriptionx, 622 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:PART ONE: IN THE LAND OF THE FOREFATHERS: Leaving ; The Great Migration, 1915-1970 -- PART TWO: BEGINNINGS: Ida Mae Brandon Gladney ; The stirrings of discontent ; George Swanson Starling ; Robert Joseph Pershing Foster ; A burdensome labor ; The Awakening ; Breaking away -- PART THREE: EXODUS: The appointed time of their crossing ; Crossing over -- PART FOUR: THE KINDER MISTRESS: Chicago ; New York ; Los Angeles ; The things they left behind ; Transplanted in alien soil ; Divisions ; To bend in strange winds ; The other side of Jordan ; Complications ; The river keeps running ; The prodigals ; Disillusionment ; Revolutions ; The fullness of the migration -- PART FIVE: AFTERMATH: In the places they left ; Losses ; More North and West than South ; Redemption ; And, perhaps, to bloom ; The winter of their lives ; The emancipation of Ida Mae -- EPILOGUE.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-587).
Note:In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America
