A courtesy photo of Pinkie in her childhood.

ID: 1834 ~ Source: “Woman on a Mission” by Reginald Owens in The Gramblinite ~ Date: March 21, 2019

This file appears in: “The Place Where Everybody Is Somebody”: State Representative Pinkie Wilkerson Memorial Interchange: I-20 & LA 149 interchange in Grambling, Louisiana

A portrait of Pinkie between the age of 6 and 10.

This file appears in: “The Place Where Everybody Is Somebody”: State Representative Pinkie Wilkerson Memorial Interchange: I-20 & LA 149 interchange in Grambling, Louisiana

“The Place Where Everybody Is Somebody”: State Representative Pinkie Wilkerson Memorial Interchange: I-20 & LA 149 interchange in Grambling, Louisiana

By Caroline Dugan

Louisiana Memorial Highway 148 is named the State Representative Pinkie Wilkerson Memorial Interchange. The small connection located at the intersection of Interstate 20 and Louisiana Highway 149,…