Zach Forehand’s Reviews > The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration > Status Update

“If there was one single precipitating event that set off the Great Migration, it was World War I… But the masses did not pour out of the South until they had something to go to. They got their chance when the North began courting them, hard and in secret, in the face of southern hostility, during the labor crisis of World War I. Word had spread like wildfire that the North was finally ‘opening up.’”