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'The Warmth of Other Suns' chosen for city book program
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 2 months ago
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The Chicago Public Library's latest selection for "One Book, One Chicago" charts the history of African-Americans who moved to Chicago and other cities after leaving their homes in the Jim Crow South. "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of
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Florida's history of racist killings
Sanford :: FL :: USA | 1 year ago
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One of the migrants documented in the book, George Swanson Starling, fled Florida for New York in 1945 after a standoff in the citrus groves, where he sought fairer wages for black pickers from the grove owners for whom they worked. The standoff --
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Bergen County Executive's Office questions $200,000 spent by community college trustees
Paramus :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The Bergen County Executive's Office has again flagged spending at the county community college, saying its trustees aren't as careful as they should be with the school's public money. At issue Tuesday was the approval by the Bergen Community College
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Author helps BCC celebrates black history month
Paramus :: NJ :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The migration of 6 million black people from the rural south has dramatically shaped our country's culture and politics, author Isabel Wilkerson told the audience at Bergen Community College Wednesday. The lecture, held in the Ciccone Theatre, was
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Griego: Indelible stamp of migration
San Antonio :: TX :: USA | over 1 year ago
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She spoke on a weeknight at Manual High School as part of the Facing History and Ourselves Community Conversations. As Wilkerson approached the lectern, before she said a word, 900 people, a predominately black audience, got to their feet and gave
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Words, sweat, cheers: Sondheim worked to get lyrics right
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Countless words led to Stephen Sondheim receiving the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement Sunday, but some of the most difficult for him to write were also the simplest. Looking relaxed on the Symphony Center stage in his olive-
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Isabel Wilkerson dramatizes story of African-Americans who fled the South
Chicago :: IL :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's wife, fled Mississippi in fear for her life after a relative was falsely accused of turkey stealing, and landed in Chicago in 1937. George Swanson Starling, a Florida citrus picker who was threatened with a
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Ask Isabel Wilkerson
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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You can submit your questions in advance in the comments area below. Wilkerson's book, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" tells of one of the major demographic and cultural shifts of the 20th century. A Seattle
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Keep AAMLO and all libraries open, Oakland!
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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A recent evening at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland was special. The line wrapped around the corner of 14th Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Way as people lined up to hear Isabel Wilkerson talk about her book, The Warmth of Other
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Home Is Where the Hatred Is: A Conversation With Isabel Wilkerson
Philadelphia :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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Most resented it and wanted to be honored for risking their lives for their country rather than attacked for being uppity...Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (New York: Random House, 2010), p...
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