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The Great Migration, in U.S. history, is the widespread migration of nearly Six Million African Americans in the 20th century from rural communities in the South to large cities and rural towns, in the North and West. It took courage and determination and sometimes outright craftiness to leave the southern home and relocate in the North. “The Food and The Folks of The Great Migration” includes history and stories of The Great Migration, the development of “The Green Book”, which was a directory of places folks could safely stop, and possibly stay, and the foods that they brought to eat along the way, and how it developed from one generation to the next into the Soul Foods and Southern Cuisines of today.
Chef Michelle Washington Wilson has earned an Associates in Applied Science in Culinary Arts from the Academy of Culinary Arts in Mays Landing. By combining her teaching skills with culinary arts, Chef Wilson is a much sought-after Personal Chef and culinary instructor. Michelle connected her culinary skills with theatrics and delivered a humorous punch line to The Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues where she entertained as the Church Lady announcer.
Michelle Washington Wilson is also a writer, performer, and storyteller from rural Newtonville, New Jersey. Michelle has been writing and telling stories for more than 30 years. She has traveled throughout North America and the Caribbean sharing stories from around the world, and she is an active member of NJ Storytelling Network and The National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS).
She is a specialist as well in Work-Readiness Instruction and Family Literacy, supporting the needs of adults re-entering the workforce, and she is an Atlantic County Library Commissioner. She retired as an Adjunct Professor at Atlantic Cape Community College in the Social Sciences Department and continues to contribute to the quality of Federally funded Afterschool Programs as a Monitor and Evaluator of 21st Century Community Learning Center Programs. Michelle continues to keep the tradition alive of having stories to tell, “Because everybody has something that they do well”.
