Join us for a very special evening of stories from those who lived before and during the Civil Rights Era.
A juvenile court judge. A nurse. Career workers from some of America's largest companies. A minister\, a professional genealogist\, a pioneering teacher - these are a few of the writers penning their memories of growing up in the segregated South in the 1940's\, 50's\, and 60's. Often with humor\, they tell wrenching and compelling stories of discrimination and deprivation\, and also stories of stoic survival\, triumph\, and just pushing through. Join us as they read and tell their own stories\, first person\, real. As a part of our celebration of Black History Month\, this promises to be a remarkable event.
The Lou Walker Senior Center Writers\: An Anthology edited by Estelle Ford-Williamson\, photographs by Loretta Seymour
Contributions by Judy McCoy Venugopal\, Harold Kenney\, Min. Hazel Daniel\, Diane Jones-Norris\, Alverdia Fields\, Sandra Taylor\, Estelle Ford-Williamson\, Dr. Jackie S. Henderson\, Ruby J. Thomas Esq.\, Marcia Murchison Hawkins\, Jennifer E. Bennett\, James B. Alexander\, Vernetta L. Jacobs
The Lou Walker Senior Center writers share their stories in an anthology of memories that was just published in 2011. If you enjoyed "\;The Help\,"\; you'll want to read this!
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Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else\, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice\, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second\; incest and assassination were family specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony\, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to forge a new empire\, in an alliance that spelled both their ends. Famous long before she was notorious\, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources\, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize\; Saint-Exupéry\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist\; and A Great Improvisation\: Franklin\, France\, and the Birth of America\, winner of the George Washington Book Prize\, the Ambassador Award in American Studies\, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books\; the Los Angeles Times Book Review\, the Chicago Tribune\, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions.
Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director’s Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, and the Boston Globe\, among other publications. She lives in New York City.