![]() How did your family's Southern roots inform the research for this book? When we talk about the 20th century, the Great Migration should be right up there with a discussion of the New Deal, or World War II, or the Harlem Renaissance. The stories of individual people what they were going through in the South, how they made the decision to leave, what they were hoping for and what they ultimately discovered upon arrival haven't been looked at from a national perspective. The social divisions within the cities themselves are an effect of the migration. The full effects of the migration are still being borne out to this day. ![]() ![]() Well, it was the greatest underreported story of the 20th century, in my view. (Chicago's Daleys: History of a Dynasty.) Wilkerson spoke with TIME about her groundbreaking career and why the Great Migration is an important chapter of the American immigrant story. 11 on the Times' Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Sellers list. Her debut book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, puts a human face on that experience, and has landed at No. ![]() Enter Isabel Wilkerson, who as the New York Times Chicago Bureau Chief in 1994 became the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Follow was one of the most important population shifts of the 20th century an exodus of nearly six million black Americans from the South to the cities of the Northeast, Midwest and West yet few people have substantively studied the effects of what is now known as the Great Migration. ![]()
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