Marcia Chatelain at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
Harvard Book Store welcomes Marcia Chatelain —Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise —for a discussion of her new book, How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. She will be joined in conversation by Christian Hosam —Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate of the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. About How Bright the Path Grows From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington. There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis, activists and Rat-Pack icons—and of course the day’s headliner, whose prophetic dream of a post-Jim Crow world has forever defined the Civil Rights Movement. But there is no “class photo” of the Black women who helped organize the march,…