1-Sentence-Summary: The Warmth Of Other Suns is the story of how and why millions of Black Americans left the South between 1915 and 1970 to escape the brutality of the Jim Crow Laws and find safety, better pay, and more freedom in what is known today as The Great Migration.19 Jan 2021
Who is Richard Wright and what is his significance to The Warmth of Other Suns?
The book title 'The Warmth of Other Suns' is a line written by the novelist Richard Wright (1908-1960) who wrote about the plight of being African-American, most notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and autobiography Black Boy (1945). It provides the opening to this book.4 Aug 2020
Is The Warmth of Other Suns a movie?
Will The Warmth of Other Suns adaptation be a Movie or a Series? It's planned as a limited series.27 Aug 2020
Who said The Warmth of Other Suns?
Wilkerson
What is the main idea of The Warmth of Other Suns?
The main themes in The Warmth of Other Suns are segregation and the caste system, the mirage of equality, and the American dream. Segregation and the caste system: Wilkerson shows how the Jim Crow South functioned as a caste system, with a pervasive code of oppression.9 Oct 2020
Where does the phrase The Warmth of Other Suns come from?
“The Warmth of Other Suns” is Wilkerson's first book. (Its title is borrowed from the celebrated black writer Richard Wright, who fled Jim Crow Mississippi in the 1920s to feel the warmth of those other suns.)2 Sept 2010
Who wrote The Warmth of Other Suns?
Isabel Wilkerson
Who narrates The Warmth of Other Suns?
Listening Length 22 hours and 40 minutes
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Author Isabel Wilkerson
Narrator Robin Miles
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