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Five Famous African American Women
Date: February 8, 2015
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Event Description
Celebrate Black History Month during the month of February and join us this Sunday at 2pm for a riveting performance by Cynthia Maddox of Rose Productions. Through story and song, meet Phillis Wheatley, America's first African American poet. Relive the Boston Massacre through the eyes of Crispus Attucks? wife. Join Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman as they look back over their lives. Rejoice with Gwendolyn Brooks, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a former Illinois Poet Laureate. Please register online at wheatonlibrary.org/calendar or by calling 630-868-7520.
