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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Suzy Smith Book Lecture 2/11 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:41:12 -0500 From: Laura McCloskey <[log in to unmask]> To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death Next Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 1:00pm Book Jacket for to serve the living Dr. Suzanne E. Smith, Professor of History and Art History at George Mason University will discuss her latest book, "To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death <https://catalog.dclibrary.org/vufind/Record/ocn319493422>." The book discusses the role African American funeral directors have had in African American society and culture. During the Jim Crow era, black funeral directors relied on racial segregation to secure their foothold in America's capitalist marketplace. With the dawning of the Civil Rights Movement, these entrepreneurs were drawn into the movement to integrate American society, but were uncertain how racial integration would affect their business success. Lecture will be held in the Black Studies Division, Room 311. For more information, call 202-727-1261. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library http://www.dclibrary.org/node/29065