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Summary:

In her new book 'The Warmth of Other Suns,' Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the author.

Contributors:

Brown, Jeffrey, 1956- , interviewer

Wilkerson, Isabel , interviewee

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions , production company, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prn

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Related Series:

Black studies in video

Subjects:

African Americans — Migrations — History — 20th century

Rural-urban migration — United States — History — 20th century

Migration, Internal — United States — History — 20th century

1900-1999

African Americans

Rural-urban migration

Migration, Internal

African Americans — Migrations

United States

Genres:

Television news programs

Online media

Internet videos

History

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 9, 2014).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (9 min)).

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

904557958

Other Control Numbers:

2732240 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP2732240/avon