February Book Club Meeting, in honor of Black History Month:
Faith Mitchell, author of Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century will speak.
Thursday, February 15 at 4pm on Zoom
free and open to the public
To register for the Zoom talk, email: info@falmouthart.org
Click this link to purchase Emma’s Postcard Album from the University Press of Mississippi.
Use the discount code EMMA30, to receive 30% off through the end of February.
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album–spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma’s Postcard Album–becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people “to make a way from no way.”
In Emma’s Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings.
Faith Mitchell is a medical anthropologist whose career has bridged research, philanthropy, and social and health policy. In addition to numerous policy-related publications, she is the author of Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies and The Book of Secrets, Part 1. Mitchell is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. She and her husband live in Northern Virginia.
