February Book Club Meeting, in honor of Black History Month: Faith Mitchell

February Book Club Meeting, in honor of Black History Month:

Faith Mitchell, author of Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century will speak.

Thursday, February 15 at 4pm on Zoom
free and open to the public

To register for the Zoom talk, email: info@falmouthart.org

The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album–spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma’s Postcard Album–becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people “to make a way from no way.”

In Emma’s Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings.