Stuffed bags and chaos were all around the room, as Ida Mae was trying to calm her children in order to not bring unnecessary attention from anyone who might happen to see them leaving. In late October of 1937, Ida Mae Gladney was getting her two children ready for the big journey ahead. So, get ready to hear more about one of the great untold stories of American history! Leaving the South By combining a general historical perspective with intimate stories of three individuals-Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Pershing Foster-"The Warmth of Other Suns", is an author’s attempt to address that omission. Although the Great Migration, as historians would come to call this silent pilgrimage, is-in the words of historian Neil McMillen-"Among the most dramatic and compelling (stories) in all chapters of American history", scholars haven’t devoted much of their attention to it. From the early years of the 20th century to the beginning of the 1970s, almost every African-American family living in the American South left the land of their forefathers in search of a better life outside of the caste system and the regime of Jim Crow.
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