TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A: Annual Meeting keynoter Isabel Wilkerson: Geography plays important role in health equity: Effects of Great Migration still impact black American health today JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 9 LP - 9 VL - 44 IS - 6 AU - Natalie McGill Y1 - 2014/08/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/44/6/9.abstract N2 - 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. ER -