“Slavery By Another Name”

For YOUTH, YOUNG ADULTS and all the rest of us!

Professor Jimmy E. Jones to lead a discussion at the Greenburgh Public Library November 8, 2014 with excerpts from the documentary film Slavery By Another Name. Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle.

The Greenburgh Library, working with the Westchester Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for Nonviolence and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Library located at the Thomas H. Slater Center has formed a dynamic screening of part of the documentary film, Slavery By Another Name and invited guest speaker, Professor James Jones of Manhattanville College.  Professor Jones is Chairperson of the African Studies Program at the College and a distinguished lecturer of world religions.  The day will focus on ways the economic exploitation of Black people continued long after Emancipation, and will relate it to the circumstances of African Americans today.  The program will take place at the Greenburgh Public Library, 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, on Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.  This program is intended for high school students, adults and elders in the community as an intergenerational conversation.  Inquiries please contact Librarian, Kate Colquitt at 721-8233.