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Black Writers of the Founding Era

December 8th @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Collage of photos of Black writers from the founding era.

Join author and historian James Basker for a special Sunday afternoon book talk and Q&A surrounding his Library of America book, Black Writers of the Founding Era. Featuring more than 120 writers, this anthology reveals the astonishing richness and diversity of the Black experience in the turbulent decades of the American Revolution.

Basker is a proud graduate of Grants Pass High School, president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and a Richard Gilder professor of literary history at Barnard College, Columbia University.

This program is offered at no charge and open to the public. A library card is not needed to participate.

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Date:
December 8th
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Venue

Grants Pass
200 NW C Street
Grants Pass, OR 97526 United States
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541-476-0571
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