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Local Book Notes: Epic Stories Of The Great Migration, Bruce Springsteen & Wage Theft Avengers

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1. DuSable Museum Now Has A Book Club.

"Introducing the DuSable Museum Book Club, which provides a unique forum to discuss exciting and emotive literature related to African American history and culture. Be among the first to take part in these dynamic learning experiences, starting with our first selection The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, presented in collaboration with One Book One Chicago.

"The Warmth of Other Suns is Isabel Wilkerson's historical study about the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of blacks out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West between 1915 and 1970.

"The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the entire period, and the biographies of three persons: a sharecropper's wife who left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago named Ida Mae Brandon Gladney; an agricultural worker, George Swanson Starling, who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a doctor who left Louisiana in the early 1950s, for Los Angeles.

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Posted on May 17, 2013

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