Aiken Lecture featuring David Levering Lewis in conversation with GPB's Peter Biello
Author of The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story
Venue:
Atlanta History Center: McElreath Hall
130 West Paces Ferry Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Event Description:
David Levering Lewis's father, John Henry Lewis Sr., set Lewis on the path he pursues, introducing him to W. E. B. Du Bois and living by example as Thurgood Marshall's collaborator in a key civil rights case in Little Rock. In�The Stained Glass Window, Lewis reckons with his legacy in full, facing his ancestors and all that was lost, all the doors that were closed to them.
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