The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationFrom 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail,

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But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers

a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind

Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth

span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work

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Ryan finds it's hard to share your best friend and harder to be a friend to someone who isn't a good friend to you

the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn't always accept them

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who undertook the radical act of educating Black children