Pencil This In: The Great Migration Talk At Chicago Public Library

By Amy Cavanaugh in Arts & Entertainment on May 5, 2013 8:00PM

The current One Book One Chicago selection is Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, and Monday evening there's a talk in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center that tackles some of the book's themes.

The book focuses on the "Great Migration," black migration out of the American South to the urban North and West between World War I to the 1970s. The movement set in motion the civil rights movement and impacted art, literature, and music.

The Great Migration: A Conversation with Timuel D. Black, Jr., Linda Johnson Rice, and Adam Green starts at 6 p.m. and features Chicago historian and recent Champion of Freedom Award recipient Timuel Black, an authority on the Great Migration; Linda Johnson Rice, whose parents moved to Chicago from the South and started Johnson Publishing Company, one of the largest and most successful black-owned media companies in the world; and historian Adam Green. The three will discuss how the Great Migration helped shape Chicago as well as the Migration's impact on their own lives.

Harold Washington Library Center is located at 400 S. State Street. The free event is on Monday, May 6 at 6 p.m.