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SUMMARY:Pulitzer Winning Historian MARCIA CHATELAIN\, Author of HOW BRIGHT 
 THE PATH GROWS
LOCATION:Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, October 14\, 2026\, at 7 PM to hear Puli
 tzer Winning historian\, University of Pennsylvania Professor MARCIA CHATE
 LAIN\, discuss her exciting new book\, HOW BRIGHT THE PATH GROWS.This even
 t is FREE and open to the public. RSVP today or preorder a SIGNED book for
  VIP Reserved Seating.Part of our America’s 250th Literary Celebrations 
 Series\, and our Fall 2026 Authors’ Week.ABOUT THE BOOKFrom the Pulitzer
  Prize-winning author ofFranchisecomes the untold story of the pioneering 
 Black women artists and activists who were seen\, but barely heard\, at th
 e 1963 March on WashingtonThere is no shortage of footage immortalizing th
 e men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\, whe
 n 250\,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memorial to call for an 
 end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis\, activists and Rat-Pa
 ck icons—and of course the day’s headliner\, whose prophetic dream of 
 a post-Jim Crow world has forever defined the Civil Rights Movement. But t
 here is no “class photo” of the Black women who helped organize the ma
 rch\, performed on its main stage\, or were honored during its Tribute to 
 Negro Women Fighters for Freedom.InHow Bright the Path Grows\, Marcia Chat
 elain weaves a gleaming group portrait of these singular women. Among this
  cohort were several household names: vaudeville icon Josephine Baker\, ci
 vil rights activist Rosa Parks\, gospel legend Mahalia Jackson\, and Daisy
  Bates\, champion of the Little Rock Nine. But many were relative unknowns
 \, including Eva Jessye\, the choir director who designed the day’s musi
 cal program\; and Anna Hedgeman\, the coordinator who pushed in the eleven
 th hour for a tribute to Black women’s work.How Bright the Path Growsis 
 a scintillating group biography\, rendering the lives of thirteen Black wo
 men visionaries—some famous\, others soon to be—in novelistic detail a
 nd like never seen before.ABOUT THE AUTHORMARCIA CHATELAINis a Professor o
 f Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of
  South Side Girls (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Franchise (Liveright
 \, 2020)\, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\, the James Beard 
 Foundation Book Award\, the Hagley Medal for Business History\, and the La
 wrence Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians. An activ
 e public speaker and educational consultant\, Chatelain has received award
 s and honors from the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of Univer
 sity Women\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.\n\nBoletos
 : https://www.simpletix.com/e/pulitzer-winning-historian-marcia-chatelai-t
 ickets-294149
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