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Award winning journalist tells story of Great Migration

WKAR Public Media
Published September 29, 2014 at 12:37 PM EDT
http://isabelwilkerson.com/

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will be at Wharton Center this week. On Thursday, Isabel Wilkerson will discuss her book "The Warmth of Other Suns" in a joint appearance with television journalist Soledad O’Brien. Wilkerson’s book is an epic work of non-fiction that chronicles the great migration northward of Southern African-Americans.She talked with Current State’s Melissa Benmark.
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