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Durham Reads Together 2014- Week 1October 2014
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"If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed." ~ John Lewis, Civil Rights leader and Member of Congress
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| March. Book Oneby John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate PowellIn the early 1960s, John Lewis became chairman of the civil rights group SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), speaking at the 1963 March on Washington and taking part in other major demonstrations in the civil rights movement. In this memoir in graphic novel format, Lewis relates his early life as a sharecropper's son, his introduction to nonviolent protest tactics while in college, and his continued involvement in peaceable efforts to bring about integration in the South. This is the 1st of three planned volumes, though it stands on its own as an introduction to Lewis' life and the social movement he helped lead. |
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Biography and Graphic Biography |
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Black and White: The Way I See It
by Richard Williams with Bart Davis
African-American entrepreneur Richard Williams grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, where his mother taught him the value of tolerance in the face of racial discrimination, though he rebelled against her advice. Eventually finding that southern California provided the opportunities he had been denied in the South and even Chicago, Williams recognized the economic potential of tennis and decided that his (yet unborn) children should become tennis stars. He taught himself the game, and when his daughters Venus and Serena became old enough to play, he coached them to outstanding success in a sport dominated by white people. Black and White unapologetically relates Williams' inspiring, unusual odyssey.
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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement
by John Lewis
Congressman John Lewis looks back on his life from his childhood on a Alabama cotton farm to his fight for civil rights, to his enduring commitment to the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr..
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Malcolm X : a graphic biography
by Andrew Helfer
Malcolm Little's transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the nation of Islam is captured in this thoroughly researched and passionately drawn graphic biography.
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The rock and the river
by Kekla Magoon
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father’s nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
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Clover : a novel
by Dori Sanders
After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community
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The secret life of bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens, whose life has been defined by the tragic death of her mother, joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters who show them the true meaning of love and family.
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Freedom Summer
Documents the ten-week period during the summer of 1964 in Mississippi when efforts by the Council of Federated Organizations and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party worked to enfranchise the segregated state's black population.
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Secret Life of Bees
Set in a small southern town in 1964, fourteen-year-old Lily, haunted by the death of her mother, leaves home to escape her cruel father to live with their African American housekeeper and the Boatwright sisters.
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Durham Marches Together
Saturday, October 4,
9 a.m.
Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
Join us for a unity march that celebrates Durham’s history and progress on civil rights. We will march from the Main Library parking lot to the new civil rights mural, which is located beside the Durham Arts Council. A short rally will welcome Congressman John Lewis and his co-author Andrew Aydin and kick off Durham Reads Together. The mural depicts scenes of Durham's involvement in the civil rights movement.
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Durham Reads Together Kick Off: March: Book One
Saturday, October 4,
2:30 p.m.
B. N. Duke Auditorium, North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville St.
Join Congressman John Lewis and co-author Andrew Aydin for a reading and discussion of Lewis’ graphic memoir, March: Book One. March is a vivid first-hand account of Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, a contemporary meditation on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader Civil Rights Movement. March: Book One was the winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and is a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. It is a Reader's Digest Graphic Novel that Every Grown-Up Should Read. It was a New York Times and Washington Post bestseller and an American Library Association Notable Book. A book signing will follow the reading.
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Dessert Reception with Congressman John Lewis
Saturday, October 4,
7:30
Hill House, 900 S. Duke St.
Join Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin for a dessert reception at Hill House. Meet Congressman Lewis in one of the most historic homes in Durham, John Sprunt Hill’s elegant mansion. Durham Library Foundation is in the midst of a $1.5 million dollar campaign for the library. The campaign will help to purchase a new bookmobile, enhance Humanities programming and expand the local history archives. $75.00 per ticket.
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Congressman John Lewis in Conversation with Frank Stasio
Sunday, October 5,
3 p.m.
Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St.
Join Congressman John Lewis and Frank Stasio, host of WUNC’s The State of Things, for a discussion on the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement, past and present. Those who attended the 1964 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will be recognized at the program. This event is co-sponsored by the Hayti Heritage Center. A book signing will follow the event.
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Film Screening: Freedom Summer
Tuesday, October 7,
7 p.m.
Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
As part of the John Hope Franklin Center’s Stanley Nelson Film Series, join us for a screening of the PBS documentary Freedom Summer, which was directed by Nelson. Over 10 memorable weeks in 1964, known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in Mississippi, which was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. The film will be introduced by John Gartrell, Director of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at Duke University.
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Contact your librarian for more great books! |
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Durham County Library
300 N. Roxboro Street
Durham, North Carolina 27701
919-560-0100
durhamcountylibrary.org
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