BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:237180@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260908T030440Z DTSTART:20260930T183000Z DTEND:20260930T193000Z SUMMARY:How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington —\\; Marcia Chatelain in conversation with Sherie M. Randolph DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public\\, but registration is encouraged. Register here –\\; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how- bright-the-path-grows-marcia-chatelain-in-conversation-with-sherie-m-tick ets-1997771286697?aff=oddtdtcreator. This event takes place at the Auburn Avenue Research Library\\, 101 Auburn Ave NE\\, Atlanta\\, GA 30303. Doo rs open at 6pm. Event begins promptly at 6:30pm.\\nCharis and the Auburn Avenue Research Library welcome Marcia Chatelain in conversation with She rie M. Randolph for a celebration of How Bright the Path Grows: The Untol d Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pio neering Black women artists and activists who were seen\\, but barely hea rd\\, at the 1963 March on Washington.\\nThere is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom\\, when 250\\,000 Americans gathered beneath the Lincoln Memo rial to call for an end to segregation. There were reverends and rabbis\\ , activists and Rat-Pack icons—and of course the day’\\;s headline r\\, whose prophetic dream of a post-Jim Crow world has forever defined t he Civil Rights Movement. But there is no “class photo” of the Black women who helped organize the march\\, performed on its main stage\\, or were honored during its “Tribute to Negro Women Fighters for Freedom. \\nIn How Bright the Path Grows\\, Marcia Chatelain weaves a gleaming gr oup portrait of these singular women. Among this cohort were several hous ehold names: vaudeville icon Josephine Baker\\; civil rights activist Ros a Parks gospel legend Mahalia Jackson\\, and Daisy Bates\\, champion of t he Little Rock Nine. But many were relative unknowns\\, including Eva Jes sye\\, the choir director who designed the day’s musical program\\, and Anna Hedgeman\\, the coordinator who pushed in the eleventh hour for a t ribute to Black women’s work.\\nHow Bright the Path Grows is a scintill ating group biography\\, rendering the lives of thirteen Black women visi onaries—some famous\\, others soon to be—in novelistic detail and lik e never seen before.\\nAbout the author\\nMARCIA CHATELAIN is a President ial Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Penns ylvania. She is the author of South Side Girls and Franchise\\, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History\\, the James Beard Foundation Book Aw ard for Writing\\, the Hagley Prize for Business History\\, and the Lawre nce W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians. An acti ve public speaker and educational consultant\\, Chatelain has received aw ards and honors from the Ford Foundation\\, the American Association of U niversity Women\\, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.\\nA bout the conversation partner\\nSherie M. Randolph is an associate profes sor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-founder of t he Black Feminist Think Tank. A former associate director of the Women’ s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College\\, she is also co-curat or of the National Women’s History Museum’s inaugural exhibition\\, W e Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC. Randolph is the author of th e award-winning biography Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical and the forthcoming Unmother: Black Feminist Freedom fr om the Limits of Motherhood (Yale University Press). She is also co-edito r of the forthcoming edited collection More Words\\, More Fire: African A merican Feminist Thought\\, 1991–2026 (The New Press).\\nAbout the Venu e / Accessibility\\nMasks are encouraged but not required.\\nThe entire b uilding is wheelchair accessible with ramps\\, including the front and ba ck entrances. Both entrances have powered doors. There are wheelchair acc essible bathroom stalls. There are three dedicated wheelchair accessible parking spots.\\nAARL has a parking lot accessible via Courtland street. There are 25 free parking passes available on a first-come\\, first-serve d basis. Parking is allowed in spaces marked Public Parking in the AARL p arking lot. Please park and enter the library to get a free parking pass and place it on your dashboard before getting settled in the auditorium.\ \nThe event is free and open to all people\\, but we encourage and apprec iate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle\\, our p rogramming non-profit. Charis Circle’\\;s mission is to foster susta inable feminist communities\\, work for social justice\\, and encourage t he expression of diverse and marginalized voices. Donate via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate.\\nPlease contact us at info@chariscircle.or g or 404-524-0304 if you would like ASL interpretation at this event.\\nB y attending our event\\, you agree to our Code of Conduct: Our event seek s to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone\\, regardless of g ender\\, gender identity and expression\\, age\\, sexual orientation\\, d isability\\, physical appearance\\, body size\\, race\\, ethnicity\\, rel igion (or lack thereof)\\, class\\, or technology choices. We do not tole rate harassment in any form. Unsolicited sexual language and imagery are not appropriate. Anyone violating these rules will be expelled from this event and all future events at the discretion of the organizers. Please r eport all harassment to Charis staff immediately or email info@chariscirc le.org.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/atlanta/events/ how-bright-the-path-grows-the-untold-story-of-the-women-who-made-the-marc h-on-washington-8212-marcia-chatelain-in-conversation-with-sherie-m-rando lph-2026-09-30 LOCATION:artsatl.org URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/atlanta/events/how-bright-the-path-grows-the-untold-story-of-the-women-who-made-the-march-on-washington-8212-marcia-chatelain-in-conversation-with-sherie-m-randolph-2026-09-30 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR