it went on so long – it would have been very difficult for any one institution to follow it from beginning to end. Carl Sandburg was a reporter, one of the early reporters of migration. I think as I matured as a writer and journalist I became aware that there really was no “ Grapes of Wrath” for this migration. In some way I’ve been writing this book all my life. from Virginia and Georgia to Washington D.C. I wrote this book because I essentially grew up with this phenomenon without recognizing it. Wilkerson recently talked with Monitor Book editor Marjorie Kehe. Yet for Isabel Wilkerson, award-winning New York Times correspondent and the child of parents who participated in the "Great Migration," this huge population shift has remained perhaps "the biggest underreported story of the 20th century." She hopes that her new book, " The Warmth of Other Suns," will change that. This mass migration reshaped America's northern cities, forced change in the South, and helped to fuel the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Between about 19, some 6 million blacks left the Jim Crow South and moved to cities in the north and west of the United States.
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