The Warmth of Other Suns Lesson Plan

In the book's second chapter, "The Great Migration, 1915-1970," Wilkerson gives a brief overview of the Great Migration, outlining major points that she will explore in detail throughout the book. Identify some of these main points, answering, at a basic level, "What was the Great Migration?"

The Great Migration was the movement of around six million Black southerners left the South to resettle in cities in the North, Midwest, and West, which took place roughly between 1916 and 1970. These people left due to the difficult, often brutal conditions of the South under Jim Crow laws and racial violence. They also left the largely agricultural South to pursue more humane and...