Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee & the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies

Name: Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee & the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies
Start: 2024-06-25T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Dumas Center

Schedule

Tue Jun 25 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Dumas Center | Roanoke, VA

Join the Gainsboro Branch Library for Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies, a lecture and book event with author Laura E. Helton, Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware and author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History.
Including a panel discussion moderated by Nelson Harris with special guests: Dr. Curtis Reeves Jr., Dr. Alvin & Virginia Shexnider (family of librarian Virginia Y. Lee) and Carla Mathis Lewis (former librarian, Gainsboro Branch Library).
Location: The Dumas Center, auditorium, 108 Henry St. N.W
Time: 6:30 pm