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The Commonwealth Monument Project returns to the Lancaster Public Library for its annual LIVE AND LEARN CHAUTAUQUA.The 2026 Lancaster Live & Learn Series is a salute to PA Abolitionist William Whipper's galvanizing Reading Society. We will pair famous speeches made by William Whipper’s colleagues to contemporary books.
➡️ Read the book prior to the meeting, then we'll listen to the corresponding speech and discuss both during our gathering.
Registration is helpful, but walk-ins will not be turned away.
Reading List:
January 13 - Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson
February 10 - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
March 10 - Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
April 14 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 12 - Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Speech List:
January 13 - David Walker, 1829 - Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World!
February 10 - William Whipper, 1834 - The Slavery of Intemperance
March 10 - Henry Highland Garnett, 1843 - Call to Rebellion
April 14 - Thomas Morris Chester, 1862 - Negro Self Respect and Pride of Race
May 12 - Frederick Douglass, 1894 - Lessons of the Hour
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
151 N. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17603
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