Read Smart Author Event - The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw

Join Belle Boggs, professor in the Department of English at NC State and Sylvester Allen Jr. as they discuss their new book, The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw. Wyatt Outlaw’s story was one of Black success—he was a Union League leader, business owner and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina’s Alamance County. But in 1870, Outlaw was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, setting off a dramatic series of events. Allen and Boggs both sought to discover why Outlaw had been erased from mainstream history books. In The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw, they share what they found in artful detail and connect Outlaw’s story to the violence against Black people in Alamance and throughout the United States, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow, the civil rights era and Black Lives Matter.

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