The Warmth of Other Suns is the story of The Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the South between 1915 and 1970 to escape the brutality of the Jim Crow Laws.

Throughout the history of the United States, there have been many migrations of people searching for a better life.

There was the Gold Rush in 1848 and the Dust Bowl Migration in the 1930s. But one migration that dwarfs all of the others in comparison is The Great Migration.

During The Great Migration, an estimated six million African Americans left their homes in the South in search of a better life in the North.

In The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson, examines the factors that resulted in the mass relocation.