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Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies

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Join the Gainsboro Branch Library for Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies, a lecture and book event with author Laura E. Helton, Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware and author of "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History."

Including a panel discussion moderated by Nelson Harris with special guests: Dr. Curtis Reeves Jr., Dr. Alvin & Virginia Shexnider (family of librarian Virginia Y. Lee) and Carla Mathis Lewis (former librarian, Gainsboro Branch Library).

Exclusive event book sales by Book No Further.

Location: The Dumas Center, auditorium, 108 Henry St. N.W

Time: 6:30 pm