Junction City Community Service Organization

The library will be holding its first Community Conversation on February 9 featuring Letters to Martin by Professor Randall Jelks. We hope you will be able to attend. Please share as possible. Thank you!

Susan

Susan Moyer, Director
Dorothy Bramlage Public Library
230 W. 7th Street
Junction City, KS 66441
785-238-4311
785-238-7873 (fax)
www.jclib.org

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Dorothy Bramlage Public Library
230 West Seventh Street
Junction City, KS 66441
Contact: Donna Porter, Assistant Director
Telephone: 785-238-4311

Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Presents 2024 Community Conversation featuring Letters to Martin by Professor Randall Jelks

The Dorothy Bramlage Public Library will hold its first Community Conversation of 2024 on Friday, February 9 at the library at 6:00 p.m. Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America by Professor Randall Jelks will be the featured title.
Copies of the book are available now at the library at the Circulation Desk including twelve signed by the author for the first registrants. Professor Jelks will also participate in the discussion via Zoom.
Evoking Dr. King’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail,” these meditations speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the Unites States including economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Written in the form of letters to Dr. King, Professor Jelks invites readers to reflect on U.S. history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society.
Jelks is an award-winning author, documentary film producer and professor. He is the author of four books and his writings have appeared in the Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many blogs, journals, and periodicals. He and Letters to Martin were recently honored when it was named one 2023’s Kansas Notable Books by the State Library of Kansas.
For more information about this program and how you can participate, contact Donna Porter at the library at 785-238-4311 or [email protected].

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