Three Girls from Bronzeville:A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, & Sisterhood with Dawn Turner (Zoom Video)

The Hyde Park Book Club hosted this event on Monday, May 16, 2022, 7:30pm

On Monday, May 16th, the Hyde Park Book Club had the honor of welcoming author Dawn Turner to the club to discuss her memoir, Three Girls from Bronzeville:A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, & Sisterhood. They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and Dawn’s best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded – fervently and intensely in that particular way of little girls – as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Blacks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. Three Girls from Bronzeville is a riveting coming-of-age memoir that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, sisterhood, and the powerful forces that allow some to flourish…and others to falter. Dawn Turner is an award-winning journalist and novelist. A former columnist for the ChicagoTribune, she spent a decade and a half writing about race and people whose stories are often overlooked and dismissed. Her commentary has appeared in The Washington Post and on PBS NewsHour, CBS News’s Sunday Morning, NPR, and elsewhere. She has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and the University of Chicago.