The wife of a sharecropper was not happy picking cotton, Wilkerson says. Ida Mae Gladney left Mississippi for Chicago in 1937. All began their lives under the Jim Crow laws of the South and made a decision to search for a better life in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. In The Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson tells the stories of Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Starling and Robert Foster. That "Great Migration" is the subject of a new book by Isabel Wilkerson, former Chicago bureau chief for the New York Times.
In their search for work, education and opportunity, they changed the culture of the nation. In the middle of the 20th century, more than 6 million African Americans left behind everything they knew in the South and headed to the North, Midwest and West Coast. It is a migration unmatched in American history. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
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