7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Central
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Members: Complimentary admission with prior registration.
Program Description
St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Westfall Politics and History Series Presents:
Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain, Author of “How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington"
In Conversation with Sowande’ Mustakeem, Washington University Department of History and Department of African & African American Studies
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain shares the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists at the 1963 March on Washington. There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke in front of the 250,000 people gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an end to segregation. Chatelain weaves a gleaming group portrait of the women. Among this cohort were several household names: vaudeville icon Josephine Baker; civil rights activist Rosa Parks, gospel legend Mahalia Jackson, and Daisy Bates, champion of the Little Rock Nine. But many were relative unknowns. “How Bright the Path Grows” renders the lives of thirteen Black women visionaries—some famous, others soon to be.
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Read more here: https://www.slcl.org/events/marcia-chatelain
Important Notes
Parking is onsite at the St. Louis County Library, Clark Family Branch.
Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Reserved VIP seating will be reserved for up to 25 Forum members. A list of St. Louis Forum registrants will be supplied to the event check-in staff.
Event Timeline
Doors Open: 6:00 pm
Program Begins: 7:00 pm
Registration will close at on Friday, September 25th so the registration list can be submitted to event staff. For more information, please contact admin@stlforum.org.
St. Louis County Library, Clark Family Branch
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
Post Event Space
St. Louis, MO 63131-3598
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