The League of Women Voters of New Castle County invites you to its monthly TED Talk Discussion, Saturday April 20th at 1 pm. The format is to watch the TED Talk and then discuss the "Ideas Worth Sharing." Bring your own beverage and snack if desired. Contact Kay Palmer with questions or to RSVP.

Isabel Wilkerson

At present in Delaware and elsewhere there is a lot of activity taking place to address the new Jim Crow issues.  The TED Talk for May, The Great Migration and the Power of A Single Decision, by Isabel Wilkerson, speaks to the single decision that changed the course of American history.  Ms. Wilkerson lays out the story of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South to the North and West between World War I and the 1970s.  This migration demonstrated how the lowest caste people in America made a decision, to take a chance, to choose for themselves so that they could offer their innate talents to the greater good.  Talents that were not permitted to be used in public in the South.  Wilkerson explains. "These people, by their actions, were able to do what the powers that be, North and South, could not or would not do," she says. "They freed themselves."  

Join us for this TED Talk that unwinds the story of the Jim Crow South and the personal stories of the people making the decision to leave their families, in some cases never to see them again, to head to the North and West for a better life.  

 Ms. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and the author of the much researched book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," the story of the Great Migration.  Ms. Wilkerson uses narrative history to bring to light our shared humanity.

The conversation will start at 1:00 on May 18th, 2019 at St. Philip’s Church, 5320 Limestone Road, Wilmington DE 19808.