Voices From Home:
Local Authors Speak , An Evening With Timuel Black
Mansfield Institute for Social Justice

Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:00 pm Blackstone Branch Library of the Chicago Public Library 4904 S. Lake Park Avenue Chicago, IL 60615

Activist, educator, and author and Roosevelt University Alum, Timuel Black is the next guest in our series “Voices From Home: Local Authors Speak”. Mr. Black is the well-known author of Bridges of Memory: Chicago’s First Wave of Black Migration (Northwestern University Press, 2003). The book records the voices of first generation blacks who migrated to Chicago from the South. However, it is his role as a labor and civil rights activist during the famous Chicago Freedom Movement that will be highlighted this evening. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Chicago marches and Black will chronicle the movement, its legacy and its meaning for the civil rights movement today.

Join us for this informative discussion. The event is free and open to the public

The event is presented by, Friends of the Blackstone Library in collaboration with The Mansfield  Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt University, the Hyde Park Herald and Powell’s Bookstore. Refreshments provided by Starbucks on 55th.