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Podcast: Designated Drinker Show
Episode: 1939 Library Sit-In :: ICON Series w/ John T Chapman & Rose Dawson
Description: Talking history while sipping Toki Highballs. On a warm August afternoon in 1939, Alexandria (Va.) Library staff and patrons watched as a young African American entered and asked to register for a library card. When he was refused, he bravely picked up a book, took a seat, and began to read. This bold act was the beginning of one of America's first sit-ins and one of the earliest precursors of the strategies used during the civil rights movement decades later. In the first epi of our four-part ICON Series, guest host John Taylor Chapman – Alexandria’s Night...