Center for Brooklyn History Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The Blind Players Club was incorporated in 1921 in the town of Suffern to provide a home for musical instruction, social services, and handicraft opportunities for visually impaired women. Click to read the Blind Players Club, Inc. Records collection guide https://t.co/euBJZj6e9o https://t.co/ZDT44XMXLu

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On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. This print comes from "The moon hoax, or, A discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings" by Richard Adams Locke. 🌜 https://t.co/1AwTzzumaP

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Burton Turkus served as Chief of the Homicide Division for the District Attorney of Kings County and as the Asst. District Attorney, where he participated in the prosecution of the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate. Learn more about Turkus here: https://t.co/lNjOPndhZ9 https://t.co/8GMIUBSgRm

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Happy Flag Day! This day celebrates the adoption United States flag on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. . . . VETS_0375, New York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History https://t.co/74sxKkYNxk

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Join us on June 1 at 6:30pm as Joe Sexton and Errol Louis discuss "The Lost Sons of Omaha" and examine the most pressing issues facing America today: our racial mistrust and division, our dire need for gun control, and the toxic power of fake news. RSVP: https://t.co/lYRS6pBffG https://t.co/wQNL9svtta

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Join National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker on May 11 at 6:30pm for a conversation about the publication of her edited journals, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965 - 2000. Register: https://t.co/HXachti7HR https://t.co/oGBatKpC9x

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Nabil Ayers, son of jazz musician Roy Ayers, holds a unique place in the world of memoirs about race and identity with his book, My Life in the Sunshine. Hear from Ayers himself in Talks in the Othmer: Legacy of Blackness on November 9 at 6:30pm at CBH. https://t.co/iLqXk1PNYM

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Join National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker on May 11 at 6:30pm for a conversation with @imaniperry about the publication of her edited journals, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000. Register: https://bklynlib.org/3F70Iod https://t.co/M9dzX5Rthi

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Earlier this year, former Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch urged for the US to ‘get its house in order,’ renew and repair our democracy, and defend those around the world in her memoir “Lessons from the Edge”. Stream her talk with CBH here: https://t.co/y2dxL10ZRL

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In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman provided of the 1st records of queer life in Brooklyn, and wrote into existence words and symbols for men who loved men. He dubbed their feeling for one another “adhesiveness,” and recommended the use of the calamus flower as a love token. #Pride https://t.co/gQWZiwqD8j

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