SANKOFA Reading Group Meeting Wrap-Up

We had a wonderful meeting last night and I would like to thank everyone for coming out to discuss JUBILEE by Margaret Walker.  Welcome to new members Anquenette Michelle Perkins, Irene German, Samson Emeakpor, Jean Chamberlain, and Vijay Maddipatha we greatly appreciate your attendance and participation.
Special thanks to Willie Jones, Nettie Stowers, Dorothy Stewart and Megan Stewart for all your support!  We couldn't do it without you!

The  discussion was lively and timely.  We highly recommend JUBILEE to anyone interested in American History, Women's History, African American History and great fiction.  Margaret Walker's writing influenced the neo-slave narratives of novelists such as Toni Morrison and  J. California Cooper. 


The Margaret Walker Center was the perfect setting for last night's meeting.  Displays in the Melvene Coney Conference Room included items mentioned in JUBILEE such as a butter churn, quilt top, cotton bolls, a framed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, and other items related to the Civil War.  Audiovisual displays included a PowerPoint presentation on Margaret Walker and JUBILEE and a CD of  Negro Spirituals arranged and conducted by William Levi Dawson and performed by the Tuskegee Singers.  Participants also had the opportunity to examine copies of Margaret Walker's handwritten notes on JUBILEE from the Margaret Walker Personal Papers at the Margaret Walker Center

Refreshments were served and discussion turned to the timely topic of HIV/AIDS in the African American community. 

Civil War Battle Animation

Sherman's March to Atlanta
http://www.civilwaranimated.com/AtlantaAnimation.html

Civil War Battle Animation

Animation of the Battle of Chattanooga
http://www.civilwaranimated.com/ChattanoogaAnimation.html

Civil War Battle Animation

 After a very successful campaign of maneuver which forces the confederates out of Tennessee with minimal losses, Union General William Rosecrans expects to do the same to the confederates in northern Georgia.

But Confederate General Braxton Bragg plans to fight and all of General James Longstreet's army corps is on the way from Virginia to reinforce him. 

Margaret Walker writes extensively about the Battle of Chickamauga in chapter 25 of JUBILEE.  Click on link below to view an animation of the battle.

http://www.civilwaranimated.com/ChickamaugaAnimation.html

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