Isabel Wilkerson

Type: Person

Name: Isabel Wilkerson

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 reports

When Equality Requires Big Government

Frum comes away with a new view of the postwar-South after reading The Warmth of Other Suns , Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration:Many of us on the right would like to tell a story of the post-Civil War South that indicts segregation as ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Isabel Wilkerson, Equality, Quash, World War II

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Johnson C. Smith University

Charlotte hosts events to mark 50th anniversary of city?s desegregation

Charlotte-area leaders, historians, organizations and residents have organized a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of desegregation in the city. Here is a list of several events that are planned:Sunday History Makers Panel Discussion: 1963 ... [Published Charlotte Observer - May 17 2013]

Entities: Levine Museum of the New South, Johnson C. Smith University, Isabel Wilkerson, Beatties, Malcolm Graham

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Linda Johnson Rice

Linda Johnson Rice, Timuel Black and Adam Green Discuss “The Great Migration “ May 6 at the Harold Washington Library.

Linda Johnson Rice and Timuel Black and Adam Green will appear in conversation on the Great Migration on May 6 at 6 p.m. at the Harold Washington Library Center 400 S. State Street, in the Cindy Pritzer Audtiorium Theater.$ The conversation is based on ... [Published Chicago Now - May 03 2013]

Entities: Linda Johnson Rice, Harold Washington, Adam Green

First reported Jan 21 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 1 reports

National Constitution Center

From Emancipation to the Great Migration

Panelists, including historian Eric Foner, talk about the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the African American community during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and through the Great Migration. Two actors also perform a reading of author Isabel ... [Published C-SPAN Recent Events - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: Isabel Wilkerson, Eric Foner, National Constitution Center

First reported Jan 07 2013 - Updated Jan 07 2013 - 1 reports

Reading as resistance — a year-end book list that challenges the mainstream

by Tami Winfrey Harris. A woman reading Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. (Flickr/Gwen) Last week, I was crowd-sourcing a list of must-read books by black women writers when someone pointedly claimed to read race-blind. “I choose my books by content ... [Published Waging Nonviolence - Jan 07 2013]

Entities: African-Americans, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Patricia Hill Collins

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