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. 

This month's book:  

What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World, by Dorothy Lazard

Dorothy Lazard grew up in the Bay Area of the 1960s and '70s, surrounded by an expansive network of family, and hungry for knowledge. Here in her first book, she vividly tells the story of her journey to becoming "queen of my own nerdy domain." Today Lazard is celebrated for her distinguished career as a librarian and public historian, and in these pages she connects her early intellectual pursuits--including a formative encounter with Alex Haley--to the career that made her a community pillar.

This program is in partnership with the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society.