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A Glimpse Into The Black Experience in the United States
Additional Recommended Reading
Join us on July 22 in the Parish Hall and on Zoom B, as we discuss the second book in our Summer Reading Program:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Greatest Migration by Isabel Wilkerson.
This is the story of the great Black migration from the deep South to points North, Midwest and West. Follow three families as they leave Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana for New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Their stories range from the early 1930s to the early 2000s.
Anthologies
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, edited by David Levering Lewis
Summer Reading Program
Non Fiction
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood and the Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life by Troy R. Saxby
Jane Crow by Pauli Murray
The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The following books and movies were published during or around the time period covered by The Warmth of Other Suns
Fiction
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Passing by Nella Larsen (also a 2021 film on Netflix)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Movies about this time period
Rustin (2023), on Netflix
Selma (2014), on Amazon Prime
Marshall (2017), on YouTube
Mississippi Burning (1988), on YouTube