“A movement without a leader…” They are simple words with generational impact. They imply that something of great importance took place. They are words spoken by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, in reference to her epic work, The Warmth of Other Suns.



This insightful work chronicles the migration of over six million African Americans from Jim Crow South to the North, West and Midwest portions of the United States. It is the journey of a people looking for more than what society deemed suitable for them changed not only the course of their lives, but that of generations to come.

What most believed would be a satisfying compilation of impersonal facts, is far from that assumption.  The Warmth of Other Suns is much more than that.

The title, borrowed from a phrase within Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy’, sets the foundation of what would become Ms. Wilkerson’s twelve year quest to compile, understand and then present this masterful treatise. More than that, by determining which three of the over 1,200 personal interviews to focus upon, the mass exodus becomes as personal as receiving stored memories at the knee of an aging elder.

Its content is that which will provoke a variety of thoughts and reactions. Regardless the response it is a work of hardships as well as triumphs. Above all it presents truth presented in its purest form.

To learn more about Ms. Wilkerson and her works you can visit her online at: www.isabelwilkerson.com