![]() ![]() ![]() Assisted listening devices can be provided upon request with a minimum of one week's advance notice. ![]() With stunning historical detail, Isabel Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. ![]() In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. Join us in May as we read "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson. Have you been meaning to read but can't find the time to get through a novel in one sitting? This is the club for you! This group reads 100 pages of a book per week, then meets for a discussion. ![]()
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