Summary of Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns

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Original book introduction: Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781952482670

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Summary of Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns

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Contents

Insights from Part 1

Insights from Parts 2-3

Insights from Parts 4-5

Insights from Epilogue

Insights from Part 1

#1

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make.

#2

They were all stuck in a societal caste system, as hard and unyielding as the red Georgia clay, a system that put them at its very bottom, and they each had a decision before them: leave or stay.

#3

It was during World War I that a silent pilgrimage took its first steps within the borders of this country. The fever rose without warning or notice by those outside its reach.

#4

It would not end until the 1970s and would set into motion changes in the North and South that no one, not even the people doing the leaving, could have