Timuel D. Black - "Sacred Ground" - Susan Klonsky & Bart Schultz

Saturday, January 19, 2019 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Event Presenter/Author: 
Timuel D. Black

Timuel D. Black will discuss Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black. He will be joined in conversation by Susan Klonsky and Bart Schultz. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

At the Co-op

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About the book: The long-awaited memoir of Prof. Timuel D. Black, educator, oral historian, civil rights activist, and the Senior Statesman of Chicago's South Side.

About the author: Timuel D. Black Jr. has spent his life furthering the cause of social justice, and his two volumes of oral histories, Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration and Bridges of Memory: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration, published by Northwestern University Press, chronicle black Chicago history from the 1920s to the present.

About the interlocutors:

Susan Klonsky is an educator, writer, and community activist. She and her husband, Mike Klonsky, are the authors of Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society.

Bart Schultz is a senior lecturer in humanities and director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many works, including Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe.

Event Location: 
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637