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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 Detroit, Michigan.
  • To document this period, Wilkerson narrates the personal journeys of George Swanson Starling and Robert Pershing Foster, among others.
  • The book won the Mark Lynton History Prize in 2011.
  • It also won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011.
Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to emphasize how Wilkerson documents the Great Migration?
A
Detroit, Michigan, is one of the cities whose African American populations grew during the Great Migration.
B
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the complex history of the Great Migration in such riveting, personal detail by narrating the journeys of individuals, such as George Swanson Starling and Robert Pershing Foster.
C
In 2011, Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Suns won not only the Mark Lynton History Prize but also the National Book Critics Circle Award.
D
The personal journey of George Swanson Starling is featured in the award-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns.