Isabel Wilkerson spoke about the role and impact of the Great Migration at Yale University on January 18, 2011. To view Video: Yale University
Author of The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson spoke about the role and impact of the Great Migration at Yale University on January 18, 2011. To view Video: Yale University
"an indelible and compulsively readable portrait of race, class, and politics in 20th-century America. History is rarely distilled so finely. Grade: A"
—Entertainment WeeklyPhoto Left: Author's mother standing at a no-standing sign in Washington, D.C.
Author Photo by Joe Henson, NYC