45 pages 1 hour read

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth Of Other Suns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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Essay Topics

1.

Which of the book’s three central figures was the greatest success? In what ways did they succeed? How did the fail?

2.

Compare and contrast the ways in which the North and the South limited the freedoms of African-Americans during the era of the Great Migration. 

3.

Southern African-Americans debated whether to work for change in the South or leave to build lives in the North. What are the pros and cons of both approaches?

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