![]() The fourth portion then explains what the destinations - New York, Chicago, Oakland, Washington and Detroit - were actually like. The third section seamlessly builds off of the second, describing the authentic experience of the journey northward. The second part then explores the struggles and pains of leaving everything behind in the South to seek a new life elsewhere. The first portion covers the characters’ beginnings, explaining the circumstances that prompted them to leave the South. ![]() ![]() The story is divided into five parts, throughout which Wilkerson includes anecdotes from each subject’s lives. The story is told from the perspectives of three black Americans living through the oppression of the Jim Crow South, who risked their lives and jobs in search of better existences for themselves and for their families. Isabel Wilkerson’s book, ” The Warmth of Other Suns,” describes the Great Migration - the migration of black Americans from the South to the North and West during the early to mid 20th century - through the lens of those who experienced it firsthand. ![]()
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