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African American History Programs & Book Club

Telfair Museums

October 2020 - September 2021

Telfair Museums presents free African American history programs online starting October 2020. Virtual programs are hosted on the second Thursday of each month at 6:00 PM. Events are free and open to the public but registration is required. Follow the links below to check out books related to the series.

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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong
ISBN: 9780820337654
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia.

Virtual program: October 8, 2020, 6 PM

To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay
ISBN: 9780809095292
Publication Date: 2009-02-17
Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive-era Chicago.

Virtual program: November 12, 2020, 6 PM

Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 by Hilary Green
ISBN: 9780823270125
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education, examining how urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their new city and state partners.
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Virtual program: December 10, 2020, 6 PM

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha LeFlouria
ISBN: 9781469622477
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
This revealing history redefines the social context of black women's lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.

Virtual program: January 14, 2021, 6 PM

The Land Was Ours by Andrew Kahrl
ISBN: 9781469628721
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Blending social and environmental history, Andrew Kahrl tells the story of African American-owned beaches in the twentieth century.
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Virtual program: February 11, 2021, 6 PM

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
ISBN: 9780385506250
Publication Date: 2008-03-25
In this groundbreaking book, Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

Virtual program: March 11, 2020, 6 PM

Lift Every Voice by Patricia Sullivan
ISBN: 9781595584465
Publication Date: 2009-07-28
The first major history of America's oldest civil rights organisation is destined to become a classic in the field.

Virtual program: April 8, 2021, 6 PM

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination by Melissa Cooper
ISBN: 9781469632674
Publication Date: 2017-04-17
This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them.

Virtual program: May 13, 2021, 6 PM

Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism by Jelani Favors
ISBN: 9781469648330
Publication Date: 2019-04-16
In this book, Jelani Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.

Virtual program: June 10, 2021, 6 PM

The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta by Maurice J. Hobson
ISBN: 9781469635354
Publication Date: 2017-11-27
For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca."

Virtual program: July 8, 2021, 6 PM

Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
ISBN: 9780156101509
Publication Date: 1991-05-31
An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl's coming of age. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.

Virtual program: August 12, 2021, 6 PM

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
ISBN: 9780822362838
Publication Date: 2016-11-14
In this original and trenchant work, Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake."
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Virtual program: September 9, 2021, 6 PM

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