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Griot African-American Book Discussion

The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr.

2024-11-19 18:30:00 2024-11-19 19:30:00 America/Chicago Griot African-American Book Discussion The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors and meets in person and virtually via Zoom. November's selection: The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr. Eola Road Branch - Meeting Room 108, Zoom Room - Eola Adult Services Department

Tuesday, November 19
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-19 18:30:00 2024-11-19 19:30:00 America/Chicago Griot African-American Book Discussion The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors and meets in person and virtually via Zoom. November's selection: The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr. Eola Road Branch - Meeting Room 108, Zoom Room - Eola Adult Services Department

Eola Road Branch

Meeting Room 108, Zoom Room - Eola Adult Services Department

The Griot Book Discussion features books by African-American authors and meets in person and virtually via Zoom. November's selection: The Movement Made Us by David J. Dennis Jr.

Monthly book discussion featuring works by African-American authors. You now have the option to attend in-person or on Zoom! Please register and choose your attendance option. Print copies of the book are available for checkout at the Eola Road Branch Adult Reference Desk on the 2nd floor. Email group facilitator Becky Clark at rclark@aurorapubliclibrary.org for more information.

Book description: The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr.

A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. Taken together, their stories paint a critical portrait of America, casting one nation's image through the lens of two individual Black men and their unique relationship. Playful and searching, anxious and restorative, fearless and driving, this intimate memoir features scenes from across David Sr's life, as he becomes involved in the movement, tries to move beyond it, and ultimately returns to it to find final solace and new sense of self - revealing a survivor who travels eternally with a cabal of ghosts. A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made.  (publisher description)

AGE GROUP: | Adults - ages 19+ |

EVENT TYPE: | Reading and Literacy |

TAGS: | book discussion | Book Club |

Eola Road Branch

Phone: 630-264-4117
Fax: 630-898-5220
Branch manager
Krista Danis

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This branch shares the Eola Community Center buiding with the Fox Valley Park District. It offers a quiet reading room with a fireplace, study rooms and a family computer lab. The Eola Road Branch has public meeting rooms that may be used for community programs. 

 

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