Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson will speak at the University of Louisville March 24 about "Gender and the Great Migration."

Her free, public talk at 6 p.m. in Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., is the Minx Auerbach lecture in women's and gender studies. The women's and gender studies department sponsors the annual event as a feature of Women's History Month. There will be a reception and book-signing afterward.

Her topic stems from her recently published book "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration," for which she interviewed more than 1,200 people during 15 years to tell the stories of the 1915-1970 migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West.

Wilkerson, former national correspondent and Chicago bureau chief at The New York Times, is the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in American journalism and the first black American to win for individual reporting. Besides her 1994 Pulitzer for feature writing, she won the George Polk Award for her coverage of the Midwest and a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. The National Association of Black Journalists named her Journalist of the Year in 1994.

For more information, call Nancy Theriot in women's and gender studies at 502-852-8160.