Warmth of the Other Suns - George Swanson
Jose Figueroa
Social Inequality
Dr. Brown
11/10/2014
Draft Paper George Swanson
Isabel Wilkerson’s book “The Wrath of Other Suns” is a the story of the Great
Migration in the United States, the exodus of more than six million black Americans out of Jim Crow and how they migrated looking for a better life or just to survive to the North and West. It was a mass movement of common people that took over six decades, from the 1910’s to the 1970’s. It takes place around the center of the twentieth century
American history and in some ways, it’s still an unfolding story. American cherish the idea of freedom, however that same idea wasn’t for everyone throughout the country’s history. The Great Migration had slaves and their descendents escaped the racial system and oppression they faced of Jim Crow, in look for something better, equal and fair. This movement definitely transformed the American culture since it had “90% of blacks in this country living in the south. By the time the mass movement ended in the 1960’s, roughly half of America’s blacks resided in the
North” (Stauffer)
The Great Migration transformed American culture which Wilkerson does a great job on describing or reproducing a national story that recognizes and explains the
African American culture at that time as well as society based on a racial system.
Wilkerson rigorously researched, and made an amazing job of a written historical narrative that has much to teach us about the American past as well as suggesting how
America may do a better job of confronting its present problems. Wilkerson focuses on the live of three people who left the South in different decades for different destinations and different reasons which were: Ida Mae, George
Swanson and Robert Foster. However, in this essay I
Social Inequality
Dr. Brown
11/10/2014
Draft Paper George Swanson
Isabel Wilkerson’s book “The Wrath of Other Suns” is a the story of the Great
Migration in the United States, the exodus of more than six million black Americans out of Jim Crow and how they migrated looking for a better life or just to survive to the North and West. It was a mass movement of common people that took over six decades, from the 1910’s to the 1970’s. It takes place around the center of the twentieth century
American history and in some ways, it’s still an unfolding story. American cherish the idea of freedom, however that same idea wasn’t for everyone throughout the country’s history. The Great Migration had slaves and their descendents escaped the racial system and oppression they faced of Jim Crow, in look for something better, equal and fair. This movement definitely transformed the American culture since it had “90% of blacks in this country living in the south. By the time the mass movement ended in the 1960’s, roughly half of America’s blacks resided in the
North” (Stauffer)
The Great Migration transformed American culture which Wilkerson does a great job on describing or reproducing a national story that recognizes and explains the
African American culture at that time as well as society based on a racial system.
Wilkerson rigorously researched, and made an amazing job of a written historical narrative that has much to teach us about the American past as well as suggesting how
America may do a better job of confronting its present problems. Wilkerson focuses on the live of three people who left the South in different decades for different destinations and different reasons which were: Ida Mae, George
Swanson and Robert Foster. However, in this essay I