Isabel Wilkerson, Visiting Writer at LRU in Hickory, NC

Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spoke on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University, in Hickory, NC, on 20 February, 2014 about  her book “The Warmth of Other Suns” which describes the “great migration” of blacks from the American south into the cities of the the north.  

Ms. Wilkerson spoke in the auditorium of the Belk Centrum which was filled with spectators, and two other rooms were also packed with people watching her presentation on closed circuit television.