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Book Club: African American Family Legacy

In partnership with the San Francisco African American Historical Society
Tuesday, 8/8/2023
6:00 - 7:00
Virtual Library

United States

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Focused on books that discuss research into African American family history and that illuminate the journey towards the discovery of our ancestors.  

The group will meet on Zoom on alternating months on the second Tuesday at 6 p.m. Selections through 2023 are: 

August 8: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles 

October 10: The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty 

December 12: Reclamation by Gayle Jessup White 

Register now for a discussion of All That She Carried, 

About All that She Carried by Tiya Miles 

In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that 'It be filled with my Love always.' Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley.  

 

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