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CATEGORIES:Black History Museum,Lyceum,Museums,Old & Historic Alexandria
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 hanged\, or to share this event with your friends\, please see https://app
 s.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=13850\n\nAfrican-Americans in A
 lexandria have long been out-spoken advocates for their own civil rights. 
  In 1865\, just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation\, and days a
 fter the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln\, a local delegation o
 f black residents met with President Andrew Johnson to push for Federal pr
 otection from restrictive state laws.  Not quite seventy-five years later\
 , black Alexandrians would take an early step in the 20th-century Civil Ri
 ghts Movement by staging one of the first sit-ins in American history.\n\n
 In 1939\, Alexandria's 33\,000 residents were served by just a single libr
 ary\, named in memory of Kate Waller Barrett\, in the 700 block of Queen S
 treet.  As was common at the time among public facilities in the South\, t
 he library was segregated.  While blacks voted and paid taxes to support t
 hese services\, they were barred from using the library.  During the summe
 r of 1939\, Howard University graduate and local attorney Samuel Wilbert T
 ucker decided to take action.\n\nDr. Brenda Mitchell-Powell will recount t
 his landmark episode and assess its impacts in her talk.  Dr. Mitchell-Pow
 ell earned her doctoral degree from the Simmons College School of Library 
 and Information Science in May\, 2015\, as an American Library Association
  Spectrum Fellow.  She previously worked as a freelance editor and was the
  founding and creative Editor-in-Chief of MultiCultural Review and the Edi
 tor-in-Chief of Small Press magazine. She has served on four panels for th
 e National Endowment for the Arts\, has served as Senior International Cor
 respondent for African Link\, and as the Children's Literature Editor for 
 Social Studies & the Young Learner.  She worked as Senior Library Assistan
 t at Gibbs College in Norwalk\, CT and as a Librarian at the Norwalk Publi
 c Library.  Dr. Mitchell-Powell is currently at work on a book version of 
 her dissertation on the 1939 Alexandria sit-in.\n\nOffered by The Alexandr
 ia Historical Society\, the talk is open to the public\, and doors open at
  7:00 PM.  \n\nLocation: Lyceum\nContact Person: Audrey Davis\nContact Pho
 ne: 703.746.4706\nContact Email: Audrey.davis@alexandriava.gov\nFees: The 
 program is free for members\, and there is a nominal charge of $5 for non-
 members\; a membership table on-site will allow people to join the Society
  that night.\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nTags: Black History Museum\, Ly
 ceum\, Museums\, Old & Historic Alexandria\n\nImport this event into your 
 calendar: http://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/iCal.aspx?id=1&si=13850
DTEND:20160526T013000Z
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LOCATION:Lyceum
SEQUENCE:4
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Lecture: Alexandria's 1939 Library Sit-in
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