"The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 640 pp.)
This solidly researched work of history reads like a novel. A child of the great migration herself, Isabel Wilkerson, award-winning New York Times correspondent, tells the story of the 6 million blacks who left the Jim Crow South and moved to cities in the north and west of the United States between 1910 and 1970. According to Wilkerson the great migration is "the biggest underreported story of the 20th century." (Click here to see a Monitor interview with Isabel Wilkerson.)
