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Book Talk - Water Tossing Boulders
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The City of Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights and the Iowa City Public Library partnered to host Book Talk: "Water Tossing Boulders" with author Adrienne Berard via Zoom.
A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America's "separate but equal" doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for school desegregation. Why isn't what historian James Loewen called "the most racist Supreme Court decision in the twentieth century" better known? "Because we lost," says a descendent of the plaintiff. Unearthing one of the greatest stories never told, journalist Adrienne Berard recounts how the Lum family fought for the right to educate Chinese Americans in the white schools of the Jim Crow South. Using their groundbreaking lawsuit as a compass, Berard depicts the complicated condition of racial otherness in rural Southern society. Through extensive research in historical documents and family correspondence, Berard illuminates a vital, forgotten chapter of America's past and uncovers the powerful journey of an oppressed people in their struggle for equality.
Adrienne Berard is an award-winning journalist and graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She began her career as a beat reporter for her hometown paper in Western Massachusetts and went on to work in magazines, television, and digital media. She is currently a senior research writer at Penn State University, has served as the assistant director for research, news, and analytics at William & Mary, and was a visiting professor at Delta State University in Mississippi.
This presentation is part of the Lens series, sponsored by the City of Iowa City's Office of Equity and Human Rights.
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