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The Great Migration: OBOC 2013 Further Reading

Inspired by the 2013-14 One Book, One Chicago selection, Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns," this recommended read offers insight into the lives of those who lived through the Great Migration and its ripple effects throughout the 20th century.

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20 items

  • Black Boy

    (American Hunger) : a Record of Childhood and Youth

    Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
    BookNew York : HarperPerennial ModernClassics, 2006.
  • PaperbackNew York : New York Review Books : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, c2005. — FICTION
  • Bridges of Memory

    Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration

    Black, Timuel D. Jr
    BookEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2003. — F548.9.N4B55 2003
  • Chicago's New Negroes

    Modernity, the Great Migration, & Black Urban Life

    Baldwin, Davarian L.
    PaperbackChapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — F548.9.N4B35 2007
  • PaperbackNew York : Faber and Faber, 2011. — PS3614.O768C693 2011
  • Freedom's Children

    the Journey From Emancipation Into the Twentieth Century

    Thomas, Velma Maia
    BookNew York : Crown Publishers, c2000. — E453.T48 2000
  • PaperbackNew York : Museum of Modern Art ; [Washington, D.C.] : Phillips Collection ; New York : HarperCollins, c1993 (Princeton Polychrome Press) — ND237.L29A4 1993
  • BookNew York : Vintage International, 1995. — FICTION
  • Land of Hope

    Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    Grossman, James R.
    BookChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989. — F548.9.N4G76 1989
  • A Nation Under Our Feet

    Black Political Struggles in the Rural South, From Slavery to the Great Migration

    Hahn, Steven, 1951-
    PaperbackCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. — E185.2.H15 2003
  • The Promised Land

    the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America

    Lemann, Nicholas
    BookNew York : A.A. Knopf, 1991. — E185.6.L36 1991
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    BookNew York : Random House, c2010. — E185.6.W685 2010