Opera Talk: Thulani Davis on the Emancipation Circuit

ABOUT THE EVENT:

A special talk featuring Thulani Davis, librettist of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, as she discusses her recent book The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom. Honored with the 2023 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award, this book reveals how the political organizations and networks that slavery survivors formed during Reconstruction laid the foundation for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States.

This event is offered in partnership with the King County Library System. Joining her in this conversation will be Bianca Dang, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington.