The Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1994 (the first African American woman to do so!), and then burst upon the popular History scene with The Warmth of Other Suns. Between 1916 to 1970, six million Black Americans left the Jim Crow-era south and headed to points north in the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Western regions of the U.S. Fifteen years in the making, The Warmth of Other Suns illuminated the Great Migration through precise research, statistical analysis, and three biographical stories rich with novelistic detail. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife resettled in Chicago in the 1930s; an agricultural worker named George Swanson Starling moved from Florida to New York City in the 1940s; and a Louisiana physician, Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, headed for Los Angeles in the 1950s. As an armchair historian relatively new to Audible at the time, Robin Miles’ performance (she later entered the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame, not surprisingly!) opened my mind and heart to what deep-dive audio narrative could be. (Ken Burns introduced the audio edition, which was icing on the cake!) I can’t miss this opportunity to highlight a stellar labor of love – and the listens that surround it in our store. Please click here to explore stories influenced by The Great Migration (and the Second Great Migration.) —Christina, Audible Editor
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  • The Warmth of Other Suns Audiolibro Por Isabel Wilkerson arte de portada

    • The Warmth of Other Suns

    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • De: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrado por: Robin Miles
    • Duración: 22 h y 40 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-26-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14,085 calificaciones
    • The audio that humanized the challenges and triumphs of the Great Migration for listeners, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, brought to life by Hall of Fame narration.

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  • Black Boy Audiolibro Por Richard Wright arte de portada

    • Black Boy

    • De: Richard Wright
    • Narrado por: Peter Francis James
    • Duración: 15 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-18-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 calificaciones
    • Isabel Wilkerson named her *magnum opus* after a lyrical turn of phrase in Richard Wright’s 1945 classic coming-of-age memoir.

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  • Wandering in Strange Lands Audiolibro Por Morgan Jerkins arte de portada

    • Wandering in Strange Lands

    • A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
    • De: Morgan Jerkins
    • Narrado por: Morgan Jerkins
    • Duración: 8 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-04-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 calificaciones
    • Morgan Jenkins, hailed by BookRiot as ''one of the smartest young writers of her generation,'' recreates via writing and narration the journeys made by an earlier generation, discovering her family’s personal history in the north and south.

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  • Making Our Way Home Audiolibro Por Blair Imani, Patrisse Cullors - foreword arte de portada

    • Making Our Way Home

    • The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
    • De: Blair Imani, Patrisse Cullors - foreword
    • Narrado por: Tay Zonday, Blair Imani, Patrisse Cullors
    • Duración: 5 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-14-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • From Reconstruction to Hip Hop, here is the definitive cultural history of the Great Migration, embroidered with the experiences of titans such as Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer, and James Baldwin.

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  • Our Harlem Audiolibro Por Marcus Samuelsson arte de portada

    • Our Harlem

    • Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster
    • De: Marcus Samuelsson
    • Narrado por: Marcus Samuelsson
    • Duración: 6 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-27-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,316 calificaciones
    • I love to cook, but it was Marcus Samuelsson (with Isabel Wilkerson as a guest, among many others!) who drew a line—voice first—between the cuisine of Harlem and soul food’s roots in the Deep South. With all the joy and diversity of Harlem itself, the author of Yes, Chef (and impresario of the Red Rooster restaurant), invites listeners to visit Our Harlem on audio.

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  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Audiolibro Por Zora Neale Hurston arte de portada

    • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

    • Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
    • De: Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-17-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 642 calificaciones
    • Zora Neale Hurston—memorably of Eatonville, Florida in fiction and nonfiction—experienced the Harlem Renaissance first hand, as narrated by Aunjanue Ellis in this collection.

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  • Becoming Audiolibro Por Michelle Obama arte de portada

    • Becoming

    • De: Michelle Obama
    • Narrado por: Michelle Obama
    • Duración: 19 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-13-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 182,313 calificaciones
    • Michelle Obama, like many quintessential Chicagoans, has a family history tied to the Great Migration: ''Even as a kid, I understood innately that the South was knit into me….''

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  • Caste Audiolibro Por Isabel Wilkerson arte de portada

    • Caste

    • The Origins of Our Discontents
    • De: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrado por: Robin Miles
    • Duración: 15 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-04-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20,887 calificaciones
    • The epic popular history recounted in The Warmth of Other Suns continues to have repercussions in the 21 st century.Isabel Wilkerson’ s prose, voiced to perfection(again!) by Robin Miles, explores caste in the U.S.in this work that is painfully, brilliantly, of the present time.

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