Author Talk: Chervis Isom
Author of The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in
Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Era
Author of The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in
Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Era
Monday, November 23 @ 6:30 pm
We will connect via Zoom.
We will connect via Zoom.
Chervis Isom is the author of his 2013 memoir, The Newspaper Boy: Coming of Age in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Era, in which he writes about delivering newspapers in his Norwood neighborhood. But more importantly, he tells of his journey out of the Jim Crow racism of his youth through a series of stories meant to explain to his grandchildren the times in which he grew up.
Over a period of 10 years, those stories grew into a book that documents the evolution of his life as it intersected with those historical and social events that occurred during his youth, such as the Korean War; the increasingly hostile Cold War; the wave of McCarthyism; Jim Crow and the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement in transportation, and following Brown v. Board of Education, in education; the Cuban Crisis; anti-Catholicism and the election of John Kennedy; the Civil Rights demonstrations in Birmingham culminating with the 16th Street Church bombing; and the assassination of President John Kennedy.
As a working writer, Chervis spent countless hours visiting and recalling the Norwood community of his childhood and youth on the north side of Birmingham, and now serves on the Board of Directors of the Norwood Resource Center. During the course of writing his recollections, he has happily rekindled old friendships, has moved with his wife, Martha, from the suburbs to downtown Birmingham, and has become active in community affairs. Please join us on Zoom on Monday, November 23, at 6:30 p.m., when Mr. Isom will discuss his book and answer questions. --> HOW TO CONNECT ON ZOOM <--
November 23, 2020 The Zoom room will open at 6:15 for a period of socializing. The discussion will begin at 6:30 Central Time. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89281642568?pwd=RlliUzAybytIMGhRblViODU1M0pkZz09 Meeting ID: 892 8164 2568 Passcode: 958965 |
