Book Signing at eta

6 pm Thursday, May 15

Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America and Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

eta Square, 7558 S. South Chicago Ave

FREE

Lerone Bennett Jr., historian and Executive Editor Emeritus of EBONY magazine, reads excerpts and discusses two of his influential books.  He is the author of ten books, including Before the Mayflower a seminal study in which Bennett examines the black experience in America starting from its origins in West Africa up to the present day.  He received the American Book Award for Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, a book which challenges the notion of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

He won the Patron Saints Award of the Society of Midland Authors for his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., What Manner of Man.  His books, poems and short stories have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Swedish, Arabic and Russian. 

Books will be available for sale and autographing.