Brown Bag Lunch—My Journey: A Memoir of the First African American to Preside Over the Alabama Board of Education

Dr. Ethel Hall, author of My Journey: A Memoir of the First African American To Preside Over the Alabama Board of Education, recounts the little “journeys” throughout her life which prepared her to become the first African American woman elected to the Alabama State Board of Education. Her experiences with racial tension, discrimination, and poverty are interspersed with portraits of the family and love which transformed her from a farmer’s daughter—determined to achieve the higher education others thought to be impossible—to a dedicated mother and educator, and even further to a statewide political leader. Wednesday, February 16, noon.

Feed your body and mind at BPL's Brown Bag Lunch programs. You bring the lunch and we'll bring the drinks. Wednesdays at noon in Central Library’s Arrington Auditorium.