Author Examines the Black Migration from the Jim Crow South (9/23/10)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson looks at the "Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970 in her book The Warmth of Other Suns. The migration involved 6 million African-Americans who left the South in search of a better life.

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Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, [2010]
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson looks at the "Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970 in her book The Warmth of Other Suns. The migration involved 6 million African-Americans who left the South in search of a better life.
Item Description: Originally released by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2010.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson looks at the "Great Migration" that took place from 1915 to 1970 in her book The Warmth of Other Suns. The migration involved 6 million African-Americans who left the South in search of a better life.
9 - 12, Academic/AP.
Streaming video file.
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (8 min., 27 sec)) : sound, color.
Format: Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience: 9 - 12, Academic/AP.
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