An evening with Annette Gordon-Reed: The Long Road to Juneteenth
Tue, Jun 18
|ALPLM
This is a free program, but advance registration is required. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Program begins at 6:30 p.m. Click the link in the description below to register.
Time & Location
Jun 18, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
ALPLM, 212 N 6th St, Springfield, IL 62701, USA
Guests
About the event
Juneteenth is America’s vital new national holiday that marks the end of slavery, and its legacy continues to influence our understanding of freedom and our fight for racial justice today.
To mark the occasion, you’re invited to an evening with ANNETTE GORDON-REED, on Tuesday, June 18, in the ALPLM Union Theater.
Gordon-Reed is a MacArthur Genius and the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for History, is one of the integral voices who brought Juneteenth into the national conversation. Her New York Times bestselling book about this profound day—On Juneteenth—is a powerful, essential work of history that weaves together America’s past with personal memoir; it was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, TIME, and NPR. The New York Times calls Annette “one of the most important American historians of our time.” She first rose to prominence…