Let’s Talk About It – Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series

The Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum invites you to join us at Rudisill Regional Library for the first installment of our Let’s Talk About It book discussion series, with the theme “Civil Rights and Equality: A Pulitzer Prize Centennial Series.” The theme will highlight works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that immerse readers in specific historic or contemporary moments with fully realized individuals experiencing inequality. Dr. Tracy Floreani will lead a discussion of the novel, The Known World by Edward P. Jones.

This event is free and open to the public. Please register on the event website to attend: https://my.gilcrease.org/31530.

Book checkout

Books can be checked out in advance from the Anne and Henry Zarrow Library at the Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum, located at 2501 W. Newton St., during reading room hours from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on weekdays. Books may also be available for checkout through Tulsa City-County Library. Please contact Jana Gowan, Reference and Outreach Librarian, at jana-gowan@utulsa.edu or 918-631-6449 with questions.

Tracy Floreani is a Professor of English at Oklahoma City University, where she has taught American literature and academic writing for 14 years. She serves as Director of OCU’s Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film and Literature, which offers public humanities programs–including a long-running Let’s Talk About It group. She earned her PhD from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, with specializations in multiethnic American literature and the history of the novel. She is the author of Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury and is currently working on a biography of Fanny McConnell Ellison, the wife of novelist Ralph Ellison.

Disclaimer: Books, services, and other materials for this series are provided by Let’s Talk About It, a project of Oklahoma Humanities. Generous funding and support for this series were provided by the Kirkpatrick Family Fund, McCasland Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, and Oklahoma City University. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Oklahoma Humanities.