The library will commemorate Civil Rights Month with programming throughout January.
The "Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865" exhibit is on display through January 12 at the Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd. January related programming includes:
• In “Proofs of Purchase: Documenting Slave Ancestors” Jari Honora will present a brief overview of genealogical research in the post-Civil War period focusing primarily on methods of locating the last slave owner and engaging in the process of tracing enslaved people back through generations of captivity from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9, at the Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd.
• In “A Journey Through Slavery at the Whitney Plantation” Dr. Ibrahima Seck who will pinpoint the importance of education and sites of memory like Whitney as catalysts towards the Second American Revolution and the birth of post-racial America from 2 to 3:30 p.m.on Thursday, January 11, at the Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd.
Author Lawrence N. Powell and Holocaust survivor Anne Levy will present “Troubled Memory: Reflections on Memory, History and Moral Obligation” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 13, at the Slidell Library 555 Robert Blvd.
The final Civil Rights Month program will be an encore presentation of the documentary film, “Big Charity” from 4-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 30, at the Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd. The film shares the untold story behind the death of an iconic institution and unveils the truth about one of the largest single payouts of federal disaster funds in state history. It won the Louisiana Endowment for Humanities Documentary of the Year award in 2015.
