FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2013
Calvert Library Southern Branch (new location in Solomons at 13920 HG Trueman Rd) will be hosting Simeon Booker, 94-year old acclaimed journalist who covered the U.S. civil rights movement from its earliest days. He was a correspondent for Jet and Ebony and the first black staff reporter on the Washington Post. He will be at the Southern Branch on Saturday, June 15 at noon.
Booker and his wife Carol McCabe Booker wrote Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement and it has been described as “a searing and eye-opening memoir.” According to Donald Graham, chairman of the Washington Post, “Simeon Booker was there when Emmett Till’s mother first opened his casket and saw his disfigured face. He was on the bus when the first Freedom Riders rode into Alabama…his book is outstanding—sharp writing to equal his brave reporting.” This book will be available for sale and signing. Share this appointment with history with your friends, family, neighbors and congregation. For more information, call Colleen Cano at Calvert Library Southern Branch at 410-326-5289.
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Robyn Truslow
Public Relations Coordinator
Calvert Library
850 Costley Way
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
Phone 410-535-0291
Fax 410-535-3022
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