Harlem Renaissance with Wil Haygood
Wednesday, Sep. 19, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
The Boat House at Confluence Park
“Featuring author Wil Haygood (whose next book, Tigerland, will be released on September 18th), with host Larry James, Managing Partner of Crabbe Brown James.
“During the 1968-69 school year, an all-black high school in Columbus, Ohio, won both the state’s basketball and baseball championships.
The year 1968 was marked by the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the war in Vietnam, campus protests and civil violence. Yet in a time of heightened racial unrest, the athletes from this segregated inner-city high school triumphed.
In his latest book, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing, journalist Wil Haygood tells the story of Columbus’s East High School and how its athletes and coaches persevered to defeat bigger, richer, whiter teams to win two state championships.” BY DAN HURLEY WWW.WVXU. ORG
Sponsored by: Puffin Foundation West
