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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

BHS Presents the JIM CROW ERA AND THE GREAT MIGRATION

ISABEL WILKERSON
on the GREAT MIGRATION

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns
speaks about the story of the Great Migration. Isablel Wilkerson
devoted 15 years to the research and writing of this book and
interviewed more than 1,200 to tell the story of this watershed
moment in American history.  The Warmth of Other Suns was
named to more than 30 Best of the Year lists and won the
National Book Critics Circle Award.

To learn more about the Great Migration join the Brooklyn
Historical Society tomorrow night (14th) at 6:30 PM.
for a screening of an episode of The African-Americans: 
Many Rivers to Cross about the Jim Crow Era and the
Great Migration.

$20/ $15 for Society members


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