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Peniel E. Joseph -- "Freedom Season"

Category: Literary

Date and Time

  • Wednesday, Jul 2, 2025  6:30pm - 7:30pm

Location

Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway

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Details

Peniel E. Joseph will speak about and sign his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution," on Wednesday, July 2nd at 6:30pm, at the Museum of Boulder. Tickets for this event are $10 (plus a small processing fee) and are available on Eventbrite.

-5:30 p.m. – Proclaiming Colorado's Black History Exhibit Open for Visitation: Explore the exhibit before the main event begins.
-6:00 p.m. – Guided PCBH Tour: Discover the history and details of the exhibit with a guided tour
-6:30 - 7:30 p.m. – Author Talk with Peniel E. Joseph: Hear from the author as he discusses his work and insights

Light refreshments will be served throughout the evening

​​​​​​​Boulder Bookstore will be onsite hand-selling autographed copies of Peniel's book.
We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of inspiration and literary conversation!

About "Freedom Season":
In "Freedom Season," acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle—a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed.

Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. The months in between brought waves of racial terror, mass protest, and police repression that shocked the world, inspired radicals and reformers, and forced the hands of moderate legislators. By year’s end the murders of John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and four Black girls at a church in Alabama left the nation determined to imagine a new way forward. Alongside the stories of historical giants like James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph uplifts the perspectives of less celebrated leaders like playwright Lorraine Hansberry and activist Gloria Richardson.

Over one heartbreakingly tumultuous year, America unraveled and remade itself as the world looked on. Freedom Season shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom.