class today at saint joseph s university. today. we re going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a better future for black people in our country polymari billie holiday lorraine hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more well-known narrative on the key participants from this time. some of these women participated in sit-ins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansbury s plays and moody s encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. there are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. they are also a thread lying together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york city echoin
brooklyn history. i come to you from the center for brooklyn history of the brooklyn public library, and also bpl presents, which is the library s arts and culture arm. tonight i am thrilled to welcome author james gains whose latest book, which comes out on february 8th, is titled the 50s, an underground history i am going to tell you a little bit about what publishers weekly says. it says, this revisionist history is packed with insights. it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful group portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues, women s rights, civil rights, and the environment in the 1950s. not the complacent era that we all maybe think it is. so tonight james s conference partner is writer daniel oak wrench. before i introduce the two of them i have a few quick notes for you. first, while the book is not released for a few more weeks, this is kind of a sneak peek. you can reorder it. we will put a link in the chat to the
brooklyn history. i come to you from the center for brooklyn history of the brooklyn public library, and also bpl presents, which is the library s arts and culture arm. tonight i am thrilled to welcome author james gains whose latest book, which comes out on february 8th, is titled the 50s, an underground history i am going to tell you a little bit about what publishers weekly says. it says, this revisionist history is packed with insights. it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful group portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues, women s rights, civil rights, and the environment in the 1950s. not the complacent era that we all maybe think it is. so tonight james s conference partner is writer daniel oak wrench. before i introduce the two of them i have a few quick notes for you. first, while the book is not released for a few more weeks, this is kind of a sneak peek. you can reorder it. we will put a link in the chat to the
i come to you from the center for brooklyn history of the brooklyn public library, and also bpl presents, which is the library s arts and culture arm. tonight i am thrilled to welcome author james gains whose latest book, which comes out on february 8th, is titled the 50s, an underground history i am going to tell you a little bit about what publishers weekly says. it says, this revisionist history is packed with insights. it goes on to say that gains delivers a compassionate and insightful group portrait of singular men and women who spoke out on lgbtq issues, women s rights, civil rights, and the environment in the 1950s. not the complacent era that we all maybe think it is. so tonight james s conference partner is writer daniel oak wrench. before i introduce the two of them i have a few quick notes for you. first, while the book is not released for a few more weeks, this is kind of a sneak peek. you can reorder it. we will put a link in the chat to the website of a loca
are individuals against the system stuff which is very moving and very real. the stories and social history so it s really a great read so congratulations, guys. thank you. i guess you know there are a lot of things about the book that did fascinate me and move me but why don t we start where you started which is how you both got interested in it and what led you to the relationship not your relationship together but abc and how this became a big story for you, caren. one year ago i had a son with autism and not long after that i figured out i would need to do something to try to help him to understand him better. i asked john to help me. we were a team of journalists working together. esop him as a story right away. no, actually john s side as the story right away and he said we were doing this very intensive program 40 hours a week, four hours of speech. we were going to beat this as we thought it was beautiful. for some people, it is and so it was the day in mick