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Steve Luxenberg: Separate

Baltimore County Public Library

Join us at the Baltimore County Public Library’s Pikesville Branch to hear Steve Luxenberg discuss his book Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson.

Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy’s lawyer, Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.

Steve Luxenberg is the author of the critically acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Separate won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.

 

 

 

 

 

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TIME & DATE
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 2:30pm

LOCATION

Baltimore County Public Library Pikesville
1301 Reisterstown Rd
Pikesville, MD 21208


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