<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McGill, Natalie</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Q&amp;amp;A: Annual Meeting keynoter Isabel Wilkerson: Geography plays important role in health equity: Effects of Great Migration still impact black American health today</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Nation's Health</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014-08-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9-9</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">44</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Great Migration of blacks from the southern U.S. is something often not covered in history textbooks. Over the course of several decades, 6 million black Americans left southern states in search of a better life unchained from a caste system that left little opportunity for social, educational and economic advancement — all things that lead to better health. Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, keynote speaker at the opening general session of APHA’s 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, authored “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” to capture that history through the lives of three people who migrated from the South.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>