Thursday, January 20, 2011

February's Book is In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault


Hello Gwinnett Readers!

In celebration of the desegregation of The University of Georgia and Black History Month, we will be reading Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s autobiography, In My Place.  Hunter-Gault was the first African American woman to register for classes at UGA in 1961.  To read more about Hunter-Gault and desegregation at UGA, visit http://desegregation.uga.edu/

The book club reading schedule for this book will be as follows:

Week 1 (Jan. 31-Feb. 6): Prologue – Chapter 5
Week 2 (Feb. 7-13): Chapter 6 – Chapter 10
Week 3 (Feb. 14-20): Chapter 11 – Chapter 15
Week 4 (Feb. 21-27): Chapter 16 – Chapter 20

Feel free to respond to discussion points or post thoughts and questions of your own as we venture through this integral chapter of our institution’s history.

Happy Reading!