Discussion of Writers and Scholars Roundtable on Civil Rights
Join us for a dynamic discussion with revealing personal accounts from four giants of the historical canon as they explore some of the critical and little known events of the Civil Rights Era.
Discussion
Thursday, July 16, at 7 P.M.
McGowan Theater
Writers and Scholars Roundtable on Civil Rights
Join us for a dynamic discussion with revealing personal accounts from four giants of the historical canon as they explore some of the critical and little known events of the Civil Rights Era. With Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Gilbert King (Devil In the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America), Diane McWhorter (Carry Me Home), Taylor Branch (Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63) and Clarence Jones, noted civil rights activist, personal counsel and adviser to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program will be moderated by NPR host and special correspondent Michele Norris-Johnson. A book signing will follow the program.
McWhorter: Caperton Fellow through WEB Du Bois Institute (part of Harvard). Her book received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, as well as the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation.
Branch: In 2009, he gave the Theodore H. White Lecture on the Press and Politics at Harvard