George Stalling's The Warmth Of Other Suns

The warmth of other suns is a book about three courageous African Americans having to make the heart breaking decision to migrate from the South, the only place they’ve ever known to the new and foreign North. Like millions of other people Ida Mae, George Stalling, and Robert Foster decided to make this great migration. When reading Warmth of Other Suns you get a sense of what it took for these millions of people to venture out to new places. These people left their homes to go to a place they’ve never been or seen, not knowing if they would see their families again, if they would be accepted, or if they could return home. These people just had hope that they could find a place that could provide freedom, somewhere they could raise their kids, and somewhere they could live out their lives.
George Stalling a well educated man was forced to leave Florida just because he asked for better wages. He was working a fruit picking job and noticed that he was being under paid for dangerous work. During this time in Florida African American trying to negotiate wages with their white bosses was out of the question. Ida Mae and her family fled Mississippi after her husband cousin had been beaten nearly to death for being accused of stealing a turkey. Although, the turkey showed up no apology was made. When Ida Mae and her family …show more content…
The African Americans in the south were stuck in a caste system that didn't allow them to express their basic human rights. These people had to check everything they did to make sure it was appropriate for where they stood on the caste system. Jim Crow was a strong implement in reinforcing the caste system . The great migration involved over 6 million people relocating from the south to the north, were conditions were said to be