However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. Sorting through her father’s papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Her father’s unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. PRESIDENT of Black book club Lorena Amos Brock speaks to everyone that came out.įEATURED AUTHOR Edda Fields-Black speaks about her book.Devastated by her father’s death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. PITTSBURGH NATIVE-Featured author Piper Huguley with her three book series “The Mayor’s Misson,” “The Preacher’s Promise” and “The Lawyer’s Luck.”įAMILY HISTORY-Faye Brown from the North Side, Diane Turner from East Liberty, and Janet Green from Homewood doing research on their family history. Genealogy 101 Vintage Players and writing personal journey-researching and writing family history abc’s of writing family history navigating library resources personal stories.įEATURED AUTHOR holding his book “Legacies.” Local authors was also featured during the brunch. Spellman College, who was named one of the top 10 historical romance novelists. of NYU and native Pittsburgher, Piper Huguley-Higgins PhD. There were different events throughout the month to encourage reading that led to an Authors’ Brunch with Edda Fields-Black, PhD. This year’s theme was Genealogy Searching Because Black Families Matter.
The United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh held its 13th Annual Celebration of Reading, 2015 -2016 Literay Healing: Kinships and Friendships. The History of the New Pittsburgh CourierĪUTHORS-Above a group of authors that came out to the Black Book Club event from left: Barry Nelson, Kim El, Sharise Nance, Piper Huguley, Sharon Flake, E.Small Business Spotlight (Sponsored by Duquesne Light Co.).Damon Carr – The Carr Report (Personal Finance).
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