Public Events --
Brownbag Lectures: Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
- Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
- Date: Wednesday, March 02, 2011, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Hosted by: Dr. Robert E. Warren, Illinois State Museum "Soul of a People" is a video documentary produced by Smithsonian Networks. It tells the story of the Federal Writers Project, a component of President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration that kept thousands of writers employed during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Among the writers were award-winning Chicagoans Richard Wright ('Native Son') and Studs Terkel ('Hard Times').
The 90-minute video will be shown in its entirety.
One of our Brownbag Lectures
Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.
Also, if you want to be informed of upcoming lectures by email, you can sign up for the brownbag announcement list.
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