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Frances E.W. Harper Literary Society of The Newark Public Library
Celebrating 25 years at the Newark Public Library (since 1987) Dorothea M. Moore, Chairperson

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Monthly meetings will be:
The first Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise noted. September to June.

Main Library – James Brown African American Room
5 Washington Street
unless otherwise noted.

September 8, 2012
11:00am – 1:00pm
Centennial Hall
Talk and Book Signing: Lloyd Strayhorn, author of Numbers and You: A Numerology Guide for Everyday Living.
September 26, 2012
6:30pm
The Blessing of the Bones (film)
October 3, 2012
6:30pm
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin (Book Discussion)
November 7, 2012
**CANCELED**
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation, by Deborah Davis (Book Discussion)
December 5, 2012
6:30pm
The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America, by Andra Gillespie (Book Discussion)
January 2012
No scheduled meeting
February 6, 2013
6:30pm
Auditorium
Celebrating Black History Month
Guest to be announced
March 6, 2013
6:30pm
Centennial Hall
Celebrating Josephine Baker and Women's History Month
Performing Artist and Civil Rights Activist Angeline Butler "Speaks Out" for Josephine Baker 50 Years After The March on Washington
April 3, 2013
6:30pm
Centennial Hall
Celebrating National Poetry Month
A Tribute to Louis Reyes Rivera
May 1, 2013
6:30pm
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (Book Discussion)
June 5, 2013
6:30pm
Facing Mount Kenya: The Traditional, by Jomo Kenyatta (Book Discussion)

For more information call 973-733-5411.
All programs are book discussions, unless otherwise noted.
Some of these books may be at other libraries and can be requested
through our Interlibrary Services Department.

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