BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:319@jewishlifect.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T123000 DTSTAMP:20260930T125035Z URL:https://jewishlifect.org/events/coalition-reading-room-the-warmth-of-o ther-suns-by-isabel-wilkerson/ SUMMARY:Coalition READING ROOM: "The Warmth of Other Suns\," by Isabel Wilk erson DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“New Yor k Times bestseller and one of the five best books of the 21st century! *\n \n\n\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner \;* An \;Oprah Dai ly \;Best Nonfiction Book of the\nPast Two Decades”\n\nThe Great Mig ration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North\nand West in search of a better life\, from World War I to 1970.\nWilkerson te lls this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable\nprotag onists: Ida Mae Gladney\, a sharecropper’s wife\, who in 1937 fled\nMiss issippi for Chicago\; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling\, who in\n1 945 fled Florida for Harlem\, and Robert Foster\, a surgeon who left Louis iana in\n1953 in hopes of making it in California.\n\nWilkerson brilliantl y captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and\ntheir new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Su ns is a bold\, remarkable\,\nand riveting work\, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land.\n\nThrough the breadth of its narrative\, the beauty of the writing\, the depth of its research\ , and the\nfullness of the people and lives portrayed herein\, this book i s a modern classic.\n\nJoin us!\n\n[gravityform id="3" title="true" descri ption="true"] END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR