Sybil Morial Book Signing
Dining Room
Sybil Morial will be discussing her book Witness to Change with the Lower School students in the auditorium starting at 8:45 a.m.. He will sign his book following the presentation.
Want an autographed book but cannot make it to the signing? Fill out the preorder form here.
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Want an autographed book but cannot make it to the signing? Fill out the preorder form here.
Click on "More Details" for book description.
WITNESS TO CHANGE by Sybil Haydel Morial
While exiled from her beloved hometown of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Sybil Haydel Morial began to document her remarkable life. In this memoir, she focuses on the sweeping changes — desegregation, the end of Jim Crow, the fight for voting rights and political empowerment — that transformed the country during her lifetime. But this is also a personal story, an account of her own evolution as an African-American woman in the midst of tempests.
Through her story, we get a rare glimpse into the lives of the middle-class black society during Jim Crow and the battles with discrimination that they faced. We also see the evolution of their sons and daughters as they claimed their positions as leaders of the civil rights struggle and later became leaders of their communities and nation.
As Ambassador Andrew Young, a childhood friend and later Sybil's prom date, relates in his foreword: "It is doubtful that New Orleans could have produced two mayors with the dynamic, creative, and visionary leadership of "Dutch" and Marc without a wife and mother of Sybil's loving strength, intelligence, and moral courage. But the life she lived in the crucible times and her perception of the civil rights movement in New Orleans goes far beyond that."
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