Focused on nonfiction books that discuss our history in a journey towards the discovery of our ancestors.
The group will meet on Zoom on alternating months on the second Tuesday of the month.
This month's book: Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks.
It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheavals both in and out of town.
This program is in partnership with the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society.
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