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Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize,  for her reporting on the Midwestern floods of 1993. 

She speaks about her new book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," about the migration of 6 million black Southerners who moved from to the North over a period of six decades beginning around 1915.

Wilkerson spent 15 years researching the book and interviewed more than 1,200 people.

Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize,  for her reporting on the Midwestern floods of 1993. 

She speaks about her new book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," about the migration of 6 million black Southerners who moved from to the North over a period of six decades beginning around 1915.

Wilkerson spent 15 years researching the book and interviewed more than 1,200 people.

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration

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