Gainesville, FL - Children’s book author Katheryn Russell-Brown will read her new book Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement during a presentation Wednesday June 21, 1 p.m. at the Cone Park Branch of the Alachua County Library District.
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You've heard the names Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, but what about the many other women who were crucial to the civil rights movement? Russell-Brown highlights 12 other prominent Black women of the Civil Rights era in her new book.
Russell-Brown will also read from another of her books titled Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, a biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston.