Free with Museum Admission
Recommended for ages 9-12
Author Barbara Wright joins us to discuss her book and commemorate the 120th anniversary of the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 in North Carolina. We will also visit part of our exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow to check out artifacts related to the history behind this important and gripping story.
About Crow
Readers follow the story of Moses Thomas, a fictional young African American boy living in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the summer of 1898. When the novel starts, the Thomas family is experiencing the promise of the Reconstruction era, but that tenuous progress is destroyed by the real-life Wilmington massacre. Through Moses’s eyes, Wright helps explain the difficult origins of the Jim Crow South, a largely unexplored topic for this age group. This book earned starred reviews from School Library Journal, Horn Book Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews and was a finalist for the 2012 New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize.
Accessing the Book:
Crow will be available from the NYHistory Store.
