5/8/2023 0 Comments From the warmth of other sunsHe briefly works in a Detroit factory during World War II, then takes up the only steady work available to Black men in Eustis: picking fruit in the citrus groves. When George is a young man, his father forces him to drop out of college for financial reasons, and he reacts by impulsively marrying his girlfriend Inez-ruining any chance of ever finishing his education. The second of Isabel Wilkerson’s three protagonists, George Swanson Starling is a brilliant, socially conscious working-class man from the small central Florida town of Eustis. Part Five: More North and West Than South.Part Four: The Fullness of the Migration.Part Three: The Appointed Time of Their Coming.Part Two: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster. Part One: The Great Migration, 1915–1970.
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