Programs
"Confronting Jim Crow in the Live-Free-Or-Die State" presented by Valerie Cunningham
Tuesday March 16, 6:30 p.m. Durham Public Library
A discussion of how de facto segregation affected African Americans in New Hampshire prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- and what has changed since then.
Valerie Cunningham is executive director of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc. and vice president of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society—New England Chapter. An appointee to the NH Commission on the Status of Women, she co-chairs the committee to establish a statewide Women’s Heritage Trail. Cunningham works independently as principal of the African American Resource Center which she established in 1988 as a consultant, lecturer, researcher and writer on topics related to New Hampshire’s Black history, from Colonial Slavery to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Screening
Thursday March 18, 6:30 p.m. Paul Creative Arts Center, Room 219, UNH
The Durham Public Library, in cooperation with the UNH Museum of Art, presents a screening of the 1960 movie classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" starring Gregory Peck.
Join us in Room A219 in the Paul Creative Arts Center. Doors open at 6 p.m.
Atticus Finch, A One Man Show with Richard Clark
Monday March 29, 6:30 p.m. Madbury Town Hall
Atticus Finch exits the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird to appear at the Madbury Town Hall. Actor Richard Clark will make this an entertaining evening with his "keeping history alive" performance. If you have read the book or seen the movie you will want to listen to attorney Atticus Finch, Scout's incredible father.
Durham Public Library is one of more than 100 partners working with The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library to bring The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird to the Granite State during March 2010.
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. Libraries, schools, bookstores, and community organizations throughout New Hampshire are hosting book discussions and other programs related to the novel. A calendar of all the Big Read NH events, is at http://bigreadnh.org.
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