Houston Public Library
Quarterly(HPLQ)
Houston Public Library presents:
Four Books for Houston
A citywide reading program for a shared
community experience through coordinated
activities and events based on four books,
each featured independently and as part of
a recurring series.
This Program is Sponsored by
Sunday, February 8, 2015 | 6:30 PM
Official Event Bookseller
Bissonnet Village Center, 2421
Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005
Tonight’s Event
Presentation and book signing by Congressman
John Lewis and co-author Andrew Aydin
Presented in observation of African American History Month
and in conjunction with the exhibit, Organized Love: Ideas on
Non-violence, on view at the Houston Public Library’s African
American Library at the Gregory School.
Observing history through...
March: Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
The HPLQ reading series launches with the groundbreaking
graphic novel, March: Book One, an engaging and awardwinning first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle
for civil and human rights. Spanning his youth in rural
Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
aimed at tearing down segregation through nonviolent
lunch counter sit-ins, March: Book One builds to a climax
on the steps of City Hall. And the story continues in the
second installment of the memoir trilogy with the newly
released March: Book Two.
Congressman John Lewis
and Andrew Aydin
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About the Authors
Congressman John Lewis is an
American icon and one of the key
figures of the civil rights movement.
His commitment to justice and
nonviolence has taken him from an
Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the
halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to
the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving
beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal
of Freedom from the first African American president.
As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, he was the youngest member of the “Big
Six” and spoke at the March on Washington; in 1965
with Hosea Williams he led the fateful “Bloody Sunday”
march in Selma, Alabama. Despite physical attacks,
serious injuries, and more than 40 arrests, John Lewis
has remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of
nonviolence. Since 1987 he has represented Georgia’s
fifth district in the House of Representatives.
Andrew Aydin, an Atlanta native, is
the Digital Director & Policy Advisor
to Rep. John Lewis in Washington,
D.C. In addition to his work on March,
Aydin has published and lectured on
the history of comics in the civil rights
movement. Aydin is a graduate of the Lovett School in
Atlanta, Trinity College in Hartford, and Georgetown
University in Washington, D.C.
Tonight’s Program
Upcoming Books in Series
MAY 2015 Learning {code}
Geek Sublime
“An unexpected tour de force. . . .The book becomes an
exquisite meditation on aesthetics, and meanwhile it is
also part memoir, the story of a young man finding his way
from India to the West and back, and from literature to
programming and back. . . .” —New York Times Book Review
Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater
6:30 PM
Opening Remarks/Introduction
Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson
Houston Public Library Director
Performance
Coders are obsessed with elegance and style,
just as writers are, but do the words mean
the same thing to both? Exploring such varied topics as logic
gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks,
and the omnipresence of an “Indian Mafia” in Silicon Valley,
Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a
fascinating meditation on the writer’s art. Part literary essay,
part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing,
original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.
WITS (Writers in the Schools) Students
AUG 2015 Searching for answers in
Friendswood
Presentation
Author, Congressman John Lewis and
Co-author Andrew Aydin
Final Remarks
Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson
Houston Public Library Director
Presentation of Proclamation
Mayor Annise Parker and
Council Member Jerry Davis
“One of the most interesting novels to be set in the Lone Star
State in quite a while.”—NPR, Great Reads of 2014
Friendswood, Texas, is a small Gulf Coast
town of church suppers, oil rigs on the
horizon, hurricane weather, and high school
football games. When tragedy rears its head
with an industrial leak that kills and sickens residents, it pulls
on the common thread that runs through the community,
intensifying everything. Author René Steinke explores what
happens when families are trapped in the ambiguity of
history’s missteps—when the actions of a few change the
lives and well-being of many.
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This program made possible through
the generous support of the Houston
Public Library Foundation.
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