Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

A writer for The Guardian recently wrote this about the book and author: One of 2010's most feted books has been The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, a powerful history of the 20th-century migration of African-American families from America's deeply segregated south. Epic in the scale of its hurt and hope, it tells the largely untold story of a people fleeing a society of segregation and lynchings to start more fulfilling lives in Chicago, New York and the west coast. In these anonymous sprawls, racial prejudice may have been alive and well in people's heads but the crucial difference was that it wasn't sanctioned by policy and pulpit. Read that Guardian article here.

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Author Carlos Eire from Bob Edwards Weekend by Sirius XM Radio

In 1962, eleven year old CARLOS EIRE and his older brother Tony boarded an airplane in Cuba and left their parents and country behind, becoming not only refugees but also orphans. The brothers were two of 14,000 children airlifted out of "Castroland" in a mass exodus known as Operation Pedro Pan. Carlos Eire is now a professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He won a National Book Award for his memoir, "Waiting for Snow in Havana." He picks up where that book left off, the moment he first set foot in the US, with "Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy."

Download the podcast here. See also: Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy, A Very Brief History of Eternity, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, Miami y Mis Mil Muertes: Confesiones de un cubanito desterrado, War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Conversation with with Isabel Wilkerson

CHARLIE ROSE: Isabel Wilkerson is here. In 1994 she became the first
African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Her new book
"The Warmth of Other Suns," was 15 years in the making. It chronicles one
of the great untold stories of American history, the decades-long migration
of black citizens who fled the south for northern and western cities in
search of a better life.

I am very pleased to have Isabel Wilkerson at this table to talk about
this extraordinary, epic story. It is almost like if there’s a great story
waiting to be told, sometimes there’s a convergence with the perfect author
to write that story, and here it is in this book, "The Warmth of Other
Suns." So, welcome.

ISABEL WILKERSON: Thank you, great to be here.

Read the full transcript here. See the full interview here. See also: The Grace of Silence: A Memoir