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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Historian Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns is about the Great Migration.
  • The Great Migration was a period in twentieth-century US history when over six million African Americans moved from the rural South to cities such as New York, New York.
  • To document this period, Wilkerson narrates the personal journeys of Ida Mae Gladney and Robert Pershing Foster, among others.
  • The book won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2011.
  • It also won the Heartland Prize in 2011.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to emphasize how Wilkerson documents the Great Migration?
A
The personal journey of Ida Mae Gladney is featured in the award-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns.
B
New York, New York, is one of the cities whose African American populations grew during the Great Migration.
C
In 2011, Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns won not only the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award but also the Heartland Prize.
D
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the complex history of the Great Migration in such riveting, personal detail by narrating the journeys of individuals, such as Ida Mae Gladney and Robert Pershing Foster.