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All programs are free and open to the public. |
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Icons of the Harlem Renaissance
Saturday, Jan. 12, 3 p.m.
Main Library, Special Collections
Ansbacher Map Room, Fourth Floor
Dr. Leininger-Miller, Professor of Art History at the University of Cincinnati and author of New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922 – 1934, will present an illustrated lecture on the two best-known works by Augusta Savage:
Gamin (1929) and Lift Every Voice and Sing (1939). Savage’s works will be analyzed, shedding light about her training, the lasting popularity of the pieces, and her 1939 New York World’s Fair sculpture. This program is in partnership with the Cummer Museum, which has an Augusta Savage exhibition running through April 7, 2019.
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30th Annual Unveiling of the Jacksonville Black History Calendar
Thursday, Jan. 17, 4 p.m.
Main Library
Hicks Auditorium
You are cordially invited to attend the 30th Annual Unveiling of the Jacksonville Black History Calendar! A timely keepsake for Black History Month, the calendar also serves as a vital resource and inspiration to celebrate black history year-round. The title sponsor for the calendar is Burger King, in collaboration with Florida State College at Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Public Library, WJXT News 4 Jax and the James Weldon Johnson Branch of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History.
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Ansbacher Map Room, Fourth Floor Join us for a book discussion about the life and art of Augusta Savage. This program will include the book, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman, written by Jeffreen M. Hayes, who curated the Augusta Savage exhibit at the Cummer Museum, and other references from the library. Take time to view an original sculpture by Augusta Savage, located in Special Collections on the fourth floor, and a timeline of her life. This program is in partnership with the Cummer Museum, which has an Augusta Savage exhibition running through April 7, 2019. |
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Strange Fruit in Florida
Saturday, Feb. 16, 1 p.m.
Main Library, Special Collections
Ansbacher Map Room, Fourth Floor
Despite its reputation as the “Sunshine State” and a tourist destination, Florida harbors a lengthy and painful history of racial violence. Tameka Hobbs, Ph.D., professor of history at Florida Memorial University, and the author of Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida, examines the history of lynching and racial violence in Florida, outlining the overall arc of the lynching era in the U.S. between 1882 and 1930. She also highlights the role of Harry T. Moore, who was a strong advocate against lynching, and was in favor of civil rights for African-Americans in Florida.
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The Underground Railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
After Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South
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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families. Reprint. A best-selling book. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South
by Michael Twitty
Sifting through stories, recipes, genetic tests and historical documents, a renowned culinary historian, in a memoir of Southern culinary tradition and food culture, traces his ancestry through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom, and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue and all Southern cuisine.
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It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke!
by Sr. Hurst, Rodney L.
On August 27, 1960, more than 200 whites with ax handles and baseball bats attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP in downtown Jacksonville who were sitting in at white lunch counters protesting racism and segregation. Referred to as Ax Handle Saturday, [this book] chronicles the racial and political climate of Jacksonville, Florida in the late fifties, the events leading up to that infamous day, and the aftermath.
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