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SUMMARY:Marcia Chatelain w/ Amira Rose: How Bright the Path Grows
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 1\, 2026 Doors at 6:00pm · Conversation at
  6:30pm First Light Books\, Hyde Park At the 1963 March on Washington\, 
 Black women organized the day\, performed on its main stage\, and were h
 onored in its Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom. Join Pulitzer
  Prize winner Marcia Chatelain for How Bright the Path Grows\, a group p
 ortrait of thirteen of those women\, in conversation with UT historian A
 mira Rose Davis. how to attend This event is free and open to everyone. 
 Buy a copy of How Bright the Path Grows with your ticket to get a reserv
 ed seat\, and pick up your book at the event. Marcia will sign books aft
 er the conversation. about the book How Bright the Path Grows brings to 
 life the Black women artists and activists of the March on Washington. S
 ome are household names: Josephine Baker\, Rosa Parks\, Mahalia Jackson\
 , and Daisy Bates\, champion of the Little Rock Nine. Others deserve to 
 be\, like Eva Jessye\, the choir director who designed the day's musical
  program\, and Anna Hedgeman\, who pushed at the eleventh hour for a tri
 bute to Black women's work. about the author Marcia Chatelain is a Profe
 ssor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the a
 uthor of South Side Girls (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Franchise (
 Liveright\, 2020)\, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\, the J
 ames Beard Foundation Book Award\, the Hagley Medal for Business History
 \, and the Lawrence Levine Award from the Organization of American Histo
 rians. An active public speaker and educational consultant\, Chatelain h
 as received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation\, the American As
 sociation of University Women\, and the German Marshall Fund of the Unit
 ed States. about the conversation partner Amira Rose Davis is an Assista
 nt Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at the Un
 iversity of Texas at Austin\, specializing in 20th-century American hist
 ory\, race\, gender\, sports\, and politics. She is finishing "Can't Eat
  a Medal": The Li\n\nMore info: https://www.firstlightaustin.com/events/
 marcia-chatelain-w-amira-rose-how-bright-the-path-grows\n\nhttps://findl
 ocal.community/event/607c49b5-8d13-43b1-8bc0-42d3f9e4f9d6
LOCATION:First Light Books\, 4300 Speedway\, Austin\, TX
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/607c49b5-8d13-43b1-8bc0-42d3f9e4f9d
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