Last Tuesday, on December 1, David Faucheux prepared the recorded portion of the program and facilitated the discussion on the book Neffertiti. It was agreed that any story about the lives of persons who lived over three thousand years ago had to be fictional, although it read like a novel it was informative.
On January 5, 2021 at 8:00pm The group will review a book written by the Pulitzer prize winning granddaughter of participants of the Great Migration of six and a half million Afro-Americans to the North.
NLS ANNOTATION:
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America’s great migration DB71929
Wilkerson, Isabel. Reading time: 19 hours, 57 minutes.
Read by Erin Jones. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
U.S. History
Bestsellers
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the migration of African Americans from the South during 1915-1970. Recounts experiences of sharecropper’s wife Ida Mae Gladney in 1937, citrus picker George Starling in 1945, and physician Pershing Foster in 1953. Asserts that institutionalized racism spurred millions to uproot themselves. Some violence. Bestseller. 2010.
Journey THROUGH HISTORY meets monthly on the first Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET.
