Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Audiobook8 minutes
Black Migration From the Jim Crow South
Written by PBS NewsHour
Narrated by PBS NewsHour
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
In her new book The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson digs into the 'The Great Migration' that took place from 1915 to 1970, when 6 million African-Americans left the South to go north and west in search of a better life. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the author.
More audiobooks from Pbs News Hour
Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Christopher Curtis: Bud, Not Buddy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Geraldine Brooks: March Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5James McBride: The Good Lord Bird Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author Elaine Pagels Explores Why Humans Rely On Religious Belief Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Miles: God: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eric Weiner: Man Seeks God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Michael Lewis: The Big Short Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Laila Lalami’s “The Other Americans” Explores The Experience Of Being An Outsider Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Many College Students Struggle To Pass Remedial Math. Do They Need To? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConversation with Toni Morrison Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Childhood Trauma Impacts Millions Of Americans, And It's Having Devastating Consequences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsabel Allende's Newest Historical Novel Tells Familiar Story Of Refugee Life PBS NewsHour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civil Rights Pioneer Ruby Bridges On Activism In The Modern Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDebating Piketty’s Theory on How Wealth Begets Wealth, Widens the Economic Gap Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rahm Emanuel, Author of "The Nation City" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBernd Heinrich On His 'Unusual' Life As A Runner And Biologist In Maine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kate DiCamillo: The Tale of Despereaux Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5For many in El Salvador, life hangs in the balance, amid fears of brutal gangs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In The Uk, Brexit Supporters Feel Their Will Is Being Thwarted Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGoldman Sachs Part I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author Jia Tolentino On American Culture Through The Prism Of The Internet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Norway's government made electric cars irresistible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author Marlon James On Never Outgrowing The Magical Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daniel Yergin: Energy Costs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As High Temperatures Hurt Sicily's Food Production, Rising Sea Levels Threaten Housing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTim O'Brien Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Richard Norton Smith: Lincoln's Influence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Black Migration From the Jim Crow South
Related audiobooks
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5African-American Writings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Superman to Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ta-Nehisi Coates: We accept violence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5the Souls of Black Folk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Henry Louis Gates: Many Rivers to Cross Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Southern Horrors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Future of the American Negro Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quest of the Silver Fleece Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5When We Free The World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Language Arts & Discipline For You
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secrets of Successful Public Speakers: How to Improve Confidence and Credibility in Your Communication Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Writing Well Audio Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
Introducing ‘1619,’ a New York Times Audio Series 100% found this document usefulNikole Hannah-Jones on Reframing the Legacy of Slavery with the 1619 Project 100% found this document usefulSide Effects of One Drop (with Dr. Yaba Blay) 0% found this document useful’1619,’ Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built 0% found this document useful17: The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 0% found this document useful‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 0% found this document usefulICYMI - Heather McGhee on "The Sum of Us" 100% found this document usefulFannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom: How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics 0% found this document usefulA Conversation With Author Kiese Laymon 100% found this document usefulDr. Allyson Hobbs of Stanford, on Racial Passing: Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Depa… 0% found this document usefulThe First Women to Report Jeffrey Epstein 0% found this document usefulIbram X. Kendi - "Four Hundred Souls" 0% found this document useful134: James Baldwin & The Fire Next Time 0% found this document useful‘1619,’ Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 0% found this document usefulDefining Blackness: How Systemic Racism Divides Black Communitites - Beyond the Scenes 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Confronting Caste TIMEArticle
Confronting Caste
Jul 24, 2020
7 min read'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes NPRArticle
'The Whiteness Of Wealth' Probes Why Black Americans Pay Higher Taxes
May 17, 2021
7 min read'How The Word Is Passed' Teaches The Importance Of Reckoning With History NPRArticle
'How The Word Is Passed' Teaches The Importance Of Reckoning With History
Jun 2, 2021
6 min readA Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense ReasonArticle
A Flawed Case Against Black Self-Defense
Nov 19, 2021
5 min readCornel West on Why James Baldwin Matters More Than Ever Literary HubArticle
Cornel West on Why James Baldwin Matters More Than Ever
Mar 2, 2017
James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn’t over. Fifty years ago he was the intense man from Harlem who wrote, in essays and novels, his version of a civil-rights movement. Over the ruins of the 1960s, and specially the assassination
12 min readAmerica Is Still Hooked on the Drug of White Supremacy | Carol Anderson The GuardianArticle
America Is Still Hooked on the Drug of White Supremacy | Carol Anderson
Aug 13, 2017
4 min readBobby Seale TIMEArticle
Bobby Seale
Oct 8, 2016
The Black Panthers co-founder, whose new book marks the 50th anniversary of the party’s establishment, talks about guns, Trump and Obama
2 min read'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans NPRArticle
'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans
Aug 10, 2020
7 min readWalter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem Literary HubArticle
Walter Mosley: On Being Black, Being a Writer, and Cave Canem
Jun 8, 2017
11 min readThe Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois The Paris ReviewArticle
The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois
Feb 14, 2018
15 min readTa-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle | Cornel West The GuardianArticle
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle | Cornel West
Dec 17, 2017
4 min readIn 'Four Hundred Souls,' 90 Writers Tell Their Stories Of 4 Centuries Of African America NPRArticle
In 'Four Hundred Souls,' 90 Writers Tell Their Stories Of 4 Centuries Of African America
Feb 18, 2021
8 min readA Reading List for Ralph Northam The AtlanticArticle
A Reading List for Ralph Northam
Feb 12, 2019
4 min readWriting About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II Literary HubArticle
Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II
Jun 14, 2018
7 min read'The Accident Of Color' Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction NPRArticle
'The Accident Of Color' Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction
Jun 18, 2019
4 min readTa-Nehisi Coates Speaks Truth in Power TIMEArticle
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Truth in Power
Oct 14, 2017
2 min readBlack America Demands Power in Soul of a Nation Exhibit NewsweekArticle
Black America Demands Power in Soul of a Nation Exhibit
Jul 14, 2017
6 min readThe Story Of Jim Crow In California High Country NewsArticle
The Story Of Jim Crow In California
Nov 1, 2020
5 min read'White People Can Be Exhausting': How Black Dignity Perseveres In A World Made For Whiteness Chicago TribuneArticle
'White People Can Be Exhausting': How Black Dignity Perseveres In A World Made For Whiteness
May 30, 2018
4 min readWhen Caste Discrimination Comes To The United States NPRArticle
When Caste Discrimination Comes To The United States
Apr 25, 2018
4 min readNikole Hannah-Jones explores 'A New Origin Story' in '1619 Project' book NPRArticle
Nikole Hannah-Jones explores 'A New Origin Story' in '1619 Project' book
Nov 17, 2021
5 min readThe Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts The AtlanticArticle
The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
Dec 23, 2019
14 min read5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive NPRArticle
5 Books To Read On Social Justice That Go Beyond The Instructive
Jun 18, 2021
6 min readThe Little-Known Roots of ‘Black Power’ The AtlanticArticle
The Little-Known Roots of ‘Black Power’
Nov 2, 2022
4 min readWhite People Must Save Themselves from Whiteness The Paris ReviewArticle
White People Must Save Themselves from Whiteness
Mar 25, 2019
5 min readIn America, Black Deaths Are Not A Flaw In The System. They Are The System The GuardianArticle
In America, Black Deaths Are Not A Flaw In The System. They Are The System
Jun 3, 2020
3 min readIn Lost Essay, Langston Hughes Recounts Meeting A Young Chain Gang Runaway NPRArticle
In Lost Essay, Langston Hughes Recounts Meeting A Young Chain Gang Runaway
Jul 17, 2019
3 min readToni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88 NPRArticle
Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88
Aug 6, 2019
Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
4 min readThe Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education Literary HubArticle
The Neoliberal Misunderstanding of Black Education
Feb 27, 2020
10 min readUnderstanding Ellison ReasonArticle
Understanding Ellison
Feb 20, 2020
4 min read
Reviews for Black Migration From the Jim Crow South
Rating: 4.833333333333333 out of 5 stars
5/5
18 ratings0 reviews