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SUMMARY:Honorée Fanonne Jeffers author reading and book signing
DESCRIPTION:Honorée Fanonne Jeffers\, award-winning and internationally known novelist\, poet\, scholar\, and essayist\, will read at 9:00 a.m. Thursday in Abernathy Auditorium.  This program is sponsored by the Department of Social Work as part of their conference and the Department of Languages and Literatures as part of  their reading series.  A book signing will follow the reading and Q and A.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/honoree-fanonne-jeffers-author-reading-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Ralph Abernathy Hall\, 1625 Harris Way\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winner of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates\, Celebrating American Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence is awarded annually by the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum to an author whose work continues the legacy of American storytelling while also exemplifying the craft\, wit\, and social insight typified by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist\, short story writer\, essayist\, screenwriter\, playwright\, lyricist\, poet\, and veteran. The Fitzgerald Prize recognizes an author’s contribution in one or more of these areas. \nThe Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum is pleased to award Ta-Nehisi Coates the 2023 Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence for his work in promoting social and racial understanding as an essayist and novelist\, while also fostering American storytelling as an educator and writer across multiple disciplines and genres including screenwriter and graphic novelist. \nAn Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates will be held at Alabama State University’s Ralph Abernathy Hall in Montgomery\, Alabama on Friday\, Sept. 22 from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The evening will include the awarding of the 2023 F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence by the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum\, followed by a discussion between Mr. Coates and Dr. Derryn Moten\, professor of History at Alabama State University. \nAudience members are encouraged to submit questions for the discussion in advance using the Q&A submission link. \nTickets are available through Eventbrite:\nhttps://aneveningwithtanehisicoates.eventbrite.com
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/winner-of-the-fitzgerald-prize-for-literary-excellence-an-evening-with-ta-nehisi-coates-celebrating-american-storytelling/
LOCATION:Ralph Abernathy Hall\, 1625 Harris Way\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum":MAILTO:fitzmuse@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Martha Prescod Norman Noonan at Clifford and Virginia Durr Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:The annual Clifford and Virginia Durr Lecture brings Martha Prescod Norman Noonan to Montgomery. She lectures on her book\, Hands on the Freedom Plow\, at ASU’s Ralph D. Abernathy Hall Auditorium on Friday\, April 28 at 4:30pm. A remarkable woman\, Norman Noonan left her Detroit home in 1963 to help register voters as a SNCC volunteer in the South. Testimonies about her contributions and those of fifty plus other women — young\, old\, Black and White — are gathered in the book. The NewSouth Bookstore will be on site at the program selling copies of the book\, which are available for signing.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/clifford-and-virginia-durr-lecture-2023/
LOCATION:Ralph Abernathy Hall\, 1625 Harris Way\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Andrew Young at ASU
DESCRIPTION:Alabama State University will host a student Civil Rights symposium about the impact of Civil Rights activism on college campuses. Andrew Young\, American politician and Civil Rights leader\, will be the featured speaker. With an eye on the past and another on the present\, attendees will be able to discuss and debate the commonalities of civil rights problems and present-day civil rights challenges. A book signing will immediately follow the symposium!
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/andrew-young-at-asu/
LOCATION:Ralph Abernathy Hall\, 1625 Harris Way\, Montgomery\, AL\, 36106\, United States
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