PBS NewsHour
Description
In her new book 'The Warmth of Other Suns,' Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the author.
Runtime
9 min
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Subjects
Geography
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Date of Publication
2010
Database
Alexander Street
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