| |
|
West Chicago Public Library District Hosts
"The Underground Railroad in Illinois" with
Local Author Glennette Tilley Turner
|
|
 |
 [West Chicago, Illinois] [February 1, 2012]: The West Chicago Public Library District invites you to join noted author and historian Glennette Tilley Turner as she takes you on a tour of the Underground Railroad in DuPage County and highlights the importance of reading to the Freedom Seekers who wished to escape from bondage before the Civil War on Thursday, February 16 at 6:30 pm.
The leading authority on the Underground Railroad in Illinois, Mrs. Turner is the author of numerous African-American history books as well as many books for children, including Running for Our Lives, Take a Walk in Their Shoes, An Apple for Harriet Tubman and, most recently, Fort Mose about a small island off the coast of Florida which was founded nearly a century before the Emancipation Proclamation and became the earliest settlement of emancipated slaves in our country.
"We are thrilled to welcome this renowned Illinois historian to our Library," says Melody E. Coleman, Administrative Librarian. "Her warm soul and lifelong inquisitive curiosity enables us to retrace the steps of the Underground Railroad in our area and offers students and adults alike a unique glimpse of this time in history."
Mrs. Turner has been honored numerous times both as an educator and historian. She is the recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Award, the Alice Browning Award for the International Black Writers Conference, and she has served on the nine-member National Park Service Underground Railroad Advisory Committee.
This program is recommended for adults and students, grades 3 and up. Registration is required; contact the Library at (630) 231-1552 for information.
###
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
