Isabel Wilkerson

Author of The Warmth of Other Suns

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“One of the most lyrical and important books of the season. The Warmth of Other Suns, written by the daughter of participants in this great wave, is a monument to deep research and even deeper reflection…. These stories, case studies written as novellas, humanize this movement and place it squarely within the most American of experiences, for whether in the front of the train or at the back of the bus, these migrants did what so many others in American history did, move from a place of oppression to someplace else in search of something better.”

—Boston Globe

Photo Left: Author's mother standing at a no-standing sign in Washington, D.C.
Author Photo by Joe Henson, NYC

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