March 14, 2014
All Day
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Koritha Mitchell, associate professor, English, will discuss her book Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2012) with a lecture and book-signing at noon Friday, March 14, at a Library of Congress event in Washington D.C. The lecture takes place in the Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. In the book, Mitchell explores the ways in which the lynching plays and performances helped the African-American community survive the height of mob violence. Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution.
