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We are entering a phase of "One Book" during which there is something scheduled nearly every day! Upcoming book discussions are scheduled for the Indian Orchard Branch Library (April 8), the Liberty Branch (April 11), and the Pine Point Branch (April 12). This Saturday (April 9), join us in the Central Library's community room to view The Long Walk Home, a powerful film about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Following the film, there will be an opportunity to discuss this film in the context of the book, exploring such questions as:
1. In what ways was Montgomery, Alabama in the mid-1950s similar to Suffolk, Virginia in the 1930s when Ruth was growing up? In what ways was it different?
2. In the mid-1950s, Ruth was living in New York City with an African-American husband and 6 or 7 bi-racial children. How do you think the family would have fared had they lived in Montgomery? Would they have faced more difficulties, fewer difficulties, or about the same?
3. How do you think teenage Rachel (Ruth) would have responded to the bus boycott had she been living there then? How about the adult Ruth?
4. Several of the older McBride children embraced aspects of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Do you think that this was a result of the times in which they lived, their need to belong to a group that lent them a solid identity, or a combination of these factors? How was their involvement with civil rights similar to Odessa’s and Miriam’s? How did it differ?
5. For those that might have been living in Springfield during the 1950s, how did your experiences compare with both contemporary New York and Montgomery?
We are entering a phase of "One Book" during which there is something scheduled nearly every day! Upcoming book discussions are scheduled for the Indian Orchard Branch Library (April 8), the Liberty Branch (April 11), and the Pine Point Branch (April 12). This Saturday (April 9), join us in the Central Library's community room to view The Long Walk Home, a powerful film about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Following the film, there will be an opportunity to discuss this film in the context of the book, exploring such questions as:
1. In what ways was Montgomery, Alabama in the mid-1950s similar to Suffolk, Virginia in the 1930s when Ruth was growing up? In what ways was it different?
2. In the mid-1950s, Ruth was living in New York City with an African-American husband and 6 or 7 bi-racial children. How do you think the family would have fared had they lived in Montgomery? Would they have faced more difficulties, fewer difficulties, or about the same?
3. How do you think teenage Rachel (Ruth) would have responded to the bus boycott had she been living there then? How about the adult Ruth?
4. Several of the older McBride children embraced aspects of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Do you think that this was a result of the times in which they lived, their need to belong to a group that lent them a solid identity, or a combination of these factors? How was their involvement with civil rights similar to Odessa’s and Miriam’s? How did it differ?
5. For those that might have been living in Springfield during the 1950s, how did your experiences compare with both contemporary New York and Montgomery?
posted by One Book at 12:28 PM
