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Booker T. Washington National Monument
Book Club
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The Book Club meets monthly from October through May. The membership is open to all. The focus of the book club is on titles describing slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights and Nature.
If you are interested in participating in the book club, you can purchase a copy of the book of the month in the Eastern National Bookstore located in the visitor center at Booker T. Washington National Monument. Copies of books may also be checked out at the Franklin County Library in Rocky Mount, Virginia.
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October – Booker T. Washington's Own Story of His Life and Work by Booker T. Washington
November – Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition by James Jones
December – March by Geraldine Brooks
January – Character Building by Booker T. Washington
February – The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
March – Southern Horrors and Other Writings; the Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892 -1900 by Ida B. Wells
April – A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America by Jubal Early
May – The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Did You Know?
If looked on as one campaign, the fighting at Wilderness and Spotsylvania resulted in more American casulaties than any other campaign in history, 60,000.
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Last Updated: July 31, 2008 at 10:09 EST |
