Editors Note: This article first appeared on April 4, 2012 Isabel Wilkerson was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She is also the author of the expansive work The Warmth of Other Suns. Her books spans the years of 1915-1970, when six million people set out on the Great […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Lisa Van Engen Isabel Wilkerson was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. She is also the author of the expansive work The Warmth of Other Suns. Her books spans the years of 1915-1970, when six million people set out on the Great Migration. She followed the […]Continue Reading →
Guest Blog by: Lisa Van Engen Growing up, there was a sweet girl who spoke broken English. Her name was Marigold and she was a few locker spaces down from my own in school. Though she was young, her eyes spoke volumes about her family history. Marigold came and went with the migratory seasons, […]Continue Reading →