Meet The Author: Minrose Gwin

Dr. Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor of English at UNC-CH, discusses her new book Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. Medgar Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till's murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives in Mississippi. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacists. Gwin discusses the powerful body of work that has emerged in response to Evers's life and death-fiction, poetry,… Show more memoir, drama, and songs from James Baldwin, Margaret Walker, Eudora Welty, Lucille Clifton, Bob Dylan, Frank X Walker and Willie Morris. A book signing will follow the reading.
Location: Auditorium:1st Floor

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