Sybil Haydel Morial Presents Author Talk at African Burial Ground National Monument
By: Christina Mancuso Mar. 21, 2017
Join African Burial Ground National Monument for an author talk with Sybil Haydel Morial on her memoir Witness To Change: From Jim Crow To Political Empowerment. Morial is an educator, activist, and community leader in New Orleans, Louisiana. The wife of the first African American mayor of New Orleans, Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, Sybil spent her career in the education field, first as a public school teacher and later as an administrator at Xavier University in New Orleans.
Sybil's memoir reveals a woman whose intelligence overrides the clichés of racial division. In its pages, we catch a rare glimpse of black professionals in an earlier New Orleans, when races, though socially isolated, lived side by side; when social connections helped to circumvent Jim Crow laws; when African American culture forged New Orleans-and American-identity.
100 copies of her memoir will be available for free to program attendees, on a first come first serve basis.
All activities will take place at African Burial Ground National Monument. The visitor center is located on the first floor of 290 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, two blocks north of City Hall.
African Burial Ground National Monument visitor center is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. The memorial is currently closed for the winter season. It will reopen April 14, 2017. The visitor center and memorial are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
All events and activities are free and open to the public, however space is limited.
Schedule is subject to change.
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