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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
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One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, reframed as millions of personal decisions to flee terror and seek dignity, following three people north and west.
A history of the Great Migration — six million Black Americans leaving the Jim Crow South between 1915 and 1970 — told through three individual lives.
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