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The Warmth of Other Suns

In Harlem, a Happy Reason to March

Stacy Parker Le Melle | Posted 09.19.2012 | New York
Read More: Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Harlem, American Pastoral, The Warmth of Other Suns, Literacy Across Harlem March, Books, Hue-Man Bookstore, Isabel Wilkerson, Harlem Book Fair, Philip Roth, Word Up Books, New York News
Stacy Parker Le Melle

At this weekend's "Literacy Across Harlem March, Book Donation and Celebration," Harlemites and anyone else who wants to participate can come out this Saturday and assert the importance of real, live books.

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Blacks Trek South: Isabel Wilkerson's Take

The Root | Posted 10.30.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Reverse Migration, Blacks Return South, Black Voices News

The news from the 2010 census that African Americans are moving south in significant numbers prompted The Root to call Isabel Wilkerson, author of The...

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6 Million African Americans And The U.S. Immigration Story

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: u.s. History, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Blacks, American History, Civil Rights, African America, The South, The Great Migration, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Immigration, The Root, The North, The West, Jim Crow, Books News

Between 1915 and 1970, 6 million African Americans left the only homes they'd known in the American South in search of better lives and opportunities ...

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Henry Louis Gates Interviews Isabel Wilkerson About Her Book On America's Great Migration (VIDEO)

TheRoot.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Isabel Wilkerson, Video, The Warmth of Other Suns, Henry Louis Gates, America's Great Migration, Books News

Isabel Wilkerson spent 10 years and interviewed more than 1,500 people to write The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration,...

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