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background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_7_1390512455464_70" style="font-weight:bold;">The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers</span></div><div style="text-align:center;" id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_7_1390512455464_35"><span id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13909" style="font-weight:bold;">Book Release and discussion with Editor Brian Dolinar<br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;text-align:center;" id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_7_1390512455464_29"><span id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13908" style="font-weight:bold;">Saturday, February 15 from 2:00 - 3:00pm at the Urbana Free Library<br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
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font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Join us
for a compelling look at the history of African Americans in the Land of
Lincoln. Editor and historian Brian Dolinar will discuss his recently
released book, <b id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13287"><i id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13286">The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers</i></b>.<br><br>Originally
part of President Roosevelt's Illinois Writers' Project, the project
employed many major African American Chicago writers, including Richard
Wright, Margaret Walker, and Katherine Dunham. They documented Black
history in Illinois from Jean Point Baptiste DuSable, the Black founder
of Chicago, to Lincoln's Emancipation and the Great Migration. Editor
Brian Dolinar helped to rescue this nearly-lost project and will talk
about some of the amazing history it uncovers. <br><br>Copies of the
book will be available for sale. The Champaign County Archives will
also display photos, newspaper articles, and artifacts from significant
events and people in local African American history.<br> <br>Dr. Brian Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture from the Depression era who also authored <b id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13377"><i id="yiv4845236094yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390512455464_13376">The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation</i></b>
(2012). He completed his Ph.D in Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate
University in 2005. He currently teaches in the Department of History
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>