The Importance of Migration

Poet and journalist isabel wilkerson was born in washington, d c. But her parents were migrants, even if they didn't call themselves that. They had come from different parts of the south. Isabel remembers a photograph yas that that picture was one of my mother a friend of hers,. And they are in their very best clothes. My mother has her pearls on, and they've put me into the small town jim crow behind them. This was like a passport for themselves to document their having arrived.