[Peace] February 15 at 2pm - Brian Dolinar: Book release of The Negro in Illinois-The WPA Papers

[Carol Inskeep]

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The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers
Book Release and discussion with Editor Brian Dolinar

Saturday, February 15 from 2:00 - 3:00pm at the Urbana Free Library


A special event for Black History Month


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, The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers.

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. 

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.

Dr. Brian Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture from the Depression era who  also authored The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (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.
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