A review by tspoon3330
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

A much needed addition to ones understanding of Black history. The great migration is often misunderstood and as Wilkerson points out, people ask the wrong questions in regards to the movement. Instead of asking what harm the migrants may have brought with them, Wilkerson believes we should "question how they summoned the courage to leave or how they found the will to press beyond the forces against them and the faith in a country that had rejected them for so long."

I wish I had learned about the Great Migration in school, but I feel that as an adult, I have a greater appreciation for the harrowing decisions so many if our ancestors made. Who knows what our lives might be like had they chosen not to leave the south? Reading this book gave me a better look at the what ifs.