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Isabel Wilkerson publishes The Warmth of Other Suns

Wilkerson's sweeping narrative history of the Great Migration won the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a foundational text for understanding twentieth-century Black American experience. Drawing on over twelve hundred interviews, it brought the stories of three migrants across six decades into vivid focus.

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  1. September 7, 2010
    Isabel Wilkerson publishes The Warmth of Other Suns

    Wilkerson's sweeping narrative history of the Great Migration won the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a foundational text for understanding twentieth-century Black American experience. Drawing on over twelve hundred interviews, it brought the stories of three migrants across six decades into vivid focus.

  2. September 7, 2010
    Isabel Wilkerson publishes The Warmth of Other Suns

    Wilkerson's epic narrative history of the Great Migration, following three individuals who left the Jim Crow South over six decades, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and is considered the definitive account of one of America's most transformative demographic movements. She was the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism (1994) and this book extended that legacy.