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In her new book 'The Warmth of Other Suns, ' Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Je...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brown, Jeffrey, 1956- (Interviewer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Arlington, VA : MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2010.
Series:Black studies in video
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Exode rural > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
African Americans > Migrations
Migration, Internal
Rural-urban migration
United States
1900-1999
Streaming videos.
History
Television news programs
Television news programs.
Téléjournaux.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:In her new book 'The Warmth of Other Suns, ' Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the author.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 9, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (9 min.).
Playing Time:00:08:27