The Lecture Returns Season starts with discussion on social justice By Brandon Klein
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A Daughter of the Great Migration
Wilkerson’s parents were part of the Great Migration, the movement of more than six million African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, Midwest and West between 1916 and 1970 because of unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws. The history of the Great Migration became the focus of Wilkerson’s debut book with her parents as a starting point. Wilkerson’s father hailed from Virginia while her mother was from Geor-
The New Albany Community Foundation’s lecture series have been recently done virtually.
Photos courtesy of Lisa Hinson
he New Albany Lecture Series kicks off its 2021-22 season with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson. The annual New Albany Community Foundation event continues its goal to promote lifelong learning and touches on several subjects, starting with Wilkerson’s discussion on social justice before lectures on health and well-being, civil discourse and debate, and the national security program. Wilkerson’s second nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was published in August 2020 and describes racism in the United States as a caste system – a system dividing society into classes – with similarities to those seen in India and Nazi Germany.
With the exception of Wilkerson’s event, which will happen on a virtual platform, the lecture series will take place at the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts.
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