Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South What's Not in The Great Debaters Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.