![]() She would eventually become its editor-in-chief and take internships at papers like the Washington Post. She then attended the nearby Howard University for the express purpose of working on the university newspaper. ![]() Thanks to her parents’ decision to migrate, Wilkerson grew up in multicultural, integrated Washington, D.C., where she discovered a passion for journalism in high school. Wilkerson’s mother grew up in Rome, Georgia, and Wilkerson tells part of her migration story in The Warmth of Other Suns. Her father was from Petersburg, Virginia and served in World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airman (a prominent cohort of Black pilots). Isabel Wilkerson identifies as “a Southerner once removed” because her parents both participated in the Great Migration. Part Five: More North and West Than South. ![]() Part Four: The Fullness of the Migration.Part Three: The Appointed Time of Their Coming. ![]() Part Two: Robert Joseph Pershing Foster.Part One: The Great Migration, 1915–1970. ![]()
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