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We will read Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns and related texts. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage Books, 2010
  • Digital Access
    • “The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision,” Isabel Wilkerson, TED Talk, 2017
    • “The Great Migration, 1900–1929,” Michael Siegel, New York Public Library, 2005
    • “The Great Migration, 1910 to 1970,” US Census Bureau, US Census Bureau, 2012
    • The Migration Series, Jacob Lawrence, The Phillips Collection, 2019
  • Unit Reader
    • “Between the World and Me,” Richard Wright, John Hawkins and Associates, Inc., 1935
    • Excerpts from “A Theory of Migration,” Everett Lee, Demography, 1966
    • “One-Way Ticket,” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 1994
    • “Penalties of Migration,” Unknown, Public Domain, 1916
    • “Some Don’ts,” Unknown, Public Domain
    • “The Lynching,” Claude McKay, Public Domain, 1922
    • “The Migration of Negroes,” W.E.B. Du Bois, Public Domain, 1917
    • “The South,” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes, Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC., 1994
    • “Where We Are Lacking,” Unknown, Public Domain, 1919

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