Creating the "Union or Secession" Exhibition 
Monday, January 31, 2011 
Time: Noon-1:00 PM 
Place: Conference Rooms

As a part of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, the Library
of Virginia developed a unique exhibition on the commonwealth's path to
secession between the autumn of 1860 and the spring of 1861. Members of
the Union or Secession exhibition planning team will discuss the
challenges and successes of constructing an exhibition based on archival
collections and other contemporary primary sources to give voice to a
variety of perspectives about the crisis of 1861. Sponsored by
Middleburg Trust.

 

Speakers include Brent Tarter, Gregg Kimball, Elizabeth Klaczynski, Mari
Julienne, and Trenton Hizer.

 

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 
Friday, February 04, 2011 
Time: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM 
Place: Lecture Hall

 

Join us for talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson
on The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration, her moving masterwork chronicling the decades-long migration
of black people from the South to the northern and western cities of the
United States. From 1915 until 1970 almost six million black people fled
the South looking for a better life. Wilkerson uses the lives of three
unique individuals to tell this story. She interviewed more than a
thousand people and researched official records to write this dramatic
account of how these journeys changed people and America.

Wilkerson's father, Alexander, was a native of Petersburg and a graduate
of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) who served as a Tuskegee
Airman during World War II.

 

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