According to Wilkerson: “Perhaps he might have stayed had they let him practise surgery like he was trained to do, or let him walk into the Palace and try on a suit like anyone else of his station.” He sent for his wife and daughters after he had established a private practice in Los Angeles. So Foster packed up his 1949 Buick and drove alone out of Monroe, Louisiana, in search of a better life in California. She lived well into old age, and her children kept her room just as it was for many years after her death.įoster’s father told him to follow his dreams, as his own had fallen apart.
She became a nurse’s aide, and her close-knit family eventually saved enough to purchase a multi-family home in Chicago.
To her mother’s chagrin, she followed the path trodden by her siblings, who had already ventured to Ohio, Syracuse and Milwaukee. Gladney and her family snuck out of Mississippi by a night train. Truth teller … Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia.
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