Author Talk with Peniel E. Joseph

Join us for an exciting evening with author Peniel E. Joseph at the Museum of Boulder, in partnership with the Boulder Bookstore!

• 5:30 p.m. – P Open for Visitation: Explore the exhibit before the main event begins.
• 6:00 p.m. – Guided PCBH Tour: Discover the history and details of the exhibit with a guided tour.
• 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. – Author Talk with Peniel E. Joseph: Hear from the author as he discusses his work and insights.
• Light refreshments will be served throughout the evening.
• Boulder Bookstore will be onsite hand-selling autographed copies of Peniel's book.

We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of inspiration and literary conversation!

About Freedom Season:

In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle—a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed.
Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. The months in between brought waves of racial terror, mass protest, and police repression that shocked the world, inspired radicals and reformers, and forced the hands of moderate legislators. By year’s end the murders of John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and four Black girls at a church in Alabama left the nation determined to imagine a new way forward. Alongside the stories of historical giants like James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph uplifts the perspectives of less celebrated leaders like playwright Lorraine Hansberry and activist Gloria Richardson.
Over one heartbreakingly tumultuous year, America unraveled and remade itself as the world looked on. Freedom Season shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom.

is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and distinguished service leadership professor and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of eight award-winning books on African American history, including The Third Reconstruction and The Sword and the Shield. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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