Fill in the Blanks

It's Black history month and, if you are like me, your African-American history education is far from complete. Here are a few titles that will shed some light, and help fill in a few of the missing pieces.

Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, chronicles the "great migration" of African-Americans out of the Jim Crow South into the unknown Northern states, only to find that they have not left racism behind.



Waiting in Line at the Drugstore and Other Writings of James Thomas Jackson is a beautiful collection of essays and reflections by Jackson, that give insight into his struggles as a black man in America from the 1930s through the 1970s. Despite his difficulties, Mr. Jackson manages to retain his joie de vivre.








"You cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small, clear image of the past." Jan Struther