We are very proud and excited to announce a book signing with Omo Moses for his highly anticipated family memoir, The White Peril. Omo Moses is the son of civil rights activist Bob Moses, who largely founded and also co-directed COFO while it was in operation in the 1960s. The historic and cultural significance of Omo Moses sharing his and his family’s stories at the COFO Civil Rights Education Center cannot be overstated and is a can’t-miss opportunity.
The event will take place on Saturday, January 25. Doors open at 5:15pm, with the reading kicking off at 6:00pm. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served. In addition, Lemuria will have copies of the memoir available for purchase. Parking is available along the street.
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“In The White Peril, Omo Moses, born in 1972 in Tanzania and raised in a black community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather’s sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights organizer Bob Moses.
The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans three generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. At once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, and a searing account of the black male experience, The White Peril powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.”
– from the Bob Moses Fund