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Uncrowned Queens Book Signingby Lauren N. Maynard |
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Just released by Buffalo’s Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Volume III of Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders is a new book about the Niagara Movement that celebrates the lives of African American Western New Yorkers. On Friday (Dec. 16), the book’s editors, UB professors and co-chairs of Uncrowned Queens, Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold and Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram (pictured), will be on hand to sign copies of the book at Talking Leaves’ Main Street store. Volume III commemorates the 100th birthday of the Niagara Movement, which began in Buffalo in 1905, with works by Drusilla Dunjee Houston, author of the 1917 poem “America’s Uncrowned Queens.” This “original paper” and another written about the Buffalo’s role in the Niagara Movement are joined by biographies of 100 women “who helped to build the Buffalo, Western New York and border cities of Canada communities.” The book is the Institute’s first bi-national recognition of how African American women influenced and preserved African history and culture in Canadian border towns. For more information on Uncrowned Queens, see www.wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens.
Friday, December 16 at 6pm. Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main St. (837-8554) Free.
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