Citizens Read: A Force For Change

A Force for Change - Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936 by Kimberley Mangun

AUTHOR ATTENDING

Beatrice Morrow Cannady was a woman ahead of her times. The first black woman in Oregon to graduate law school and to run for state representative, Cannady worked for civil rights both diplomatically, by holding interracial teas and large soirees in her home in NE Portland, and as a public activist fighting segregation and discrimination in Portland and Oregon. In A Force For Change, author Kimberley Mangun explores the life and activism of Beatrice Cannady, details her encounters with the leading black intellectuals and artists of that time and opens up a largely unexplored facet of Oregon history. Please join City Club for a fascinating discussion with the author of this book, Kimberley Mangun.

Kimberley Mangun is a professor at the University of Utah. Her research on Beatrice Morrow Cannady was the basis for an Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary that premiered in May 2007.

This event is open only to City Club members and their guests. Please RSVP to amy@pdxcityclub.org or 503-228-7231 x110.