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The Warmth of Other Suns 
, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, IsabelWilkerson, chronicles the largely untold story of the Great Migration, in which some sixmillion Black people migrated to cities in the North and West from the South's Jim Crowcaste system between 1915 and 1970. Current anti-migrant rhetoric hinges upon dividingcommunities of color and explicitly pitting African Americans with roots in the south,against migrants today. It's important that we build bridges and continue to foster respectand knowledge about one another's unique experiences and our shared history.
Discussion Guide
The questions below are meant to guide important conversation topics based on thebook and informed by the work of our organizations. A list of sources we used for theguide is below including a link to the author
ʼ
s official reading group guide, from which weborrowed a couple of these questions.1.
 
The Warmth of Other Suns 
combines a sweeping historical perspective with vividintimate portraits of three individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, George SwansonStarling, and Robert Pershing Foster. What is the value of this dual focus, ofshifting between the panoramic and the close-up? In what ways are Ida MaeGladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster representative of the millions ofother migrants who journeyed from South to North?2.
 
In many ways
The Warmth of Other Suns 
seeks to tell a new story—about theGreat Migration of Black people from the South to the North and those whostayed—and to set the record straight about the true significance of thatmigration. “What were the major economic, social, and historical forces thatsparked the Great Migration? Why did blacks leave in such great numbers from1915 to 1970?3.
 
What does George Starling
ʻ
s experience in the 40s in Detroit, Michigan factorywork and in the orange groves of Eustis, Florida reveal about the history offactory, farm work and workers rights in the United States?4.
 
Wilkerson quotes Black Boy in which Richard Wright wrote, on arriving in theNorth: “I had fled one insecurity and embraced another” (p. 242). What uniquechallenges did Black migrants face in the North? How did the range of challengesduring the Great Migration affect the lives of Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling,and Robert Foster?5.
 
Why were northern working-class whites so hostile to Black migrants?
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