JSMC Book Club
The Josephine School Community Museum Book Club was begun to promote literacy and cultural understanding. The subjects are timely and the discussions lively.
Our 2024 book selection is Master Slave Husband Wife, An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo. This is the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
There will be three sessions this year, each covering a portion of the book.
All sessions will be in-person. Please join us!
2024 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | Non-Fiction | “Master Slave Husband Wife” by Ilyon Woo “OVERTURE – MACON – GEORGIA – SAVANAH – CHARLESTON – OVERLAND” |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday
June 30, 2024 3:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | “Master Slave Husband Wife” “PENNSYLVANIA – NEW ENGLAND – THE UNITED STATES” |
Sunday August 18, 2024 3:00 PM |
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| October | “Master Slave Husband Wife” “CANADA – OVERSEAS – CODA” |
Sunday October 27, 2024 3:00 PM |
2023 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-Fiction | “How the Word Is Passed” by Clint Smith “Monticello Plantation” “The Whitney Plantation” |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 30, 2023 3:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | “How the Word Is Passed” “Angola Prison” “Blandford Cemetery” |
Sunday June 25, 2023 3:00 PM |
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| August | “How the Word Is Passed” “Galveston Island” “New York City” |
Sunday August 27, 2023 3:00 PM |
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| October | “How the Word Is Passed” “Goree Island” New Orleans - Summary |
Sunday October 29, 2023 3:00 PM |
2020 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-Fiction | “Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County” by Kristen Green |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 26 3:00 – 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Historical Fiction | “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday June 14 3:00 – 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | Non-Fiction | “Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid” | Gene Betit | Sunday August 9 3:00 – 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Fiction |
“God Help the Child”
by Toni Morrison |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday October 11 3:00 – 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2019 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-fiction | “Becoming” by Michelle Obama |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 7 3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Non-fiction | “Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday June 9 3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | Non-fiction | “Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years” | Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday August 11 3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Non-fiction |
“Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationlist”
by Eli Saslow |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday October 13 3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2018 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-fiction |
“Where Do We Go From Here” by Martin Luther King, Jr |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 8 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Non-fiction |
“John Brown to James Brown” by Ed Maliskas |
Ed Maliskas | Sunday June 10 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | Non-fiction | “I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street” by Matt Taibbi |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday August 12 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Non-fiction |
“We Were Eight Years in Power: An American
Tragedy” by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Josephine School Community Museum\ | Sunday October 14 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2017 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Fiction |
“The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 9 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Non-fiction |
“Undocumented” by Dan-el Padilla Peralta |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday June 4 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | Non-fiction |
“The Presidency in Black and White” by April Ryan |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday August 13 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Non-fiction |
“Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday October 8 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2016 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-fiction |
"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 24 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Poetry, Middle Grade |
"Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday June 19 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August CANCELLED |
Non-fiction |
"A
Promise Fulfilled" by Julia Jeter Cleckley |
TBA | Sunday TBA 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Non-fiction |
"Just
Mercy"
by Bryan Stevenson |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday October 9 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2015 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-fiction | “Hidden in Plain View” by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard |
Nancy Thompson Shenandoah Piecemakers |
Sunday April 19 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Historical Fiction | “Aggy of Zion” by Barbara Frank |
Barbara Frank | Sunday June 14 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August |
Non-fiction | “From Loudoun to
Glory” by Kevin Grigsby |
Kevin Grigsby | Sunday August 23 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Non-fiction |
“History of Douglas School Winchester, Virginia” by Judy Humbert and June Gaskins-Davis |
Judy Humbert | Sunday October 18 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2014 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | “Twelve Years a
Slave” by Solomon Northup |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday April 13 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum | |
| June | “First Class”
The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School” by Alison Stewart |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday June 8 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum | |
| August |
“Who Asked
You?” by Terry McMillian |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday August 10 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum | |
| October | “Faithful To The
Task at Hand” by Ann Pruitt-Logan |
Josephine School Community Museum | Sunday October 12 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2013 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
(downloadable PDF available
here)
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | Non-Fiction | Through Children’s Eyes: President Obama and the Future
Generation. By Dr. Helen Bond et al.,(2012) |
Helen Bond, and Bernadine Barr | Sunday April 21 3:00 -5:00pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Poetry | The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 |
Helen Carr | Sunday June 9 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August CANCELLED |
Historical | The Sumner Story: Capturing Our History Preserving Our Legacy
by Dr. Wilma Bonner et al., |
Wilma Bonner | Sunday August 18 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| October | Biography |
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and
Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama by Rachel L. Swarns |
Helen Bond | Sunday October 20 3:00-5:00 pm |
Josephine School Community Museum |
2012 JSCM BOOK SCHEDULE
| Month | Genre | Title/Author | Facilitator | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APRIL | Non-Fiction | Red Tails An oral history of the Tuskegee Airmen By John B. Holway |
John Burns | April 22 3:00-5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| June | Short Stories | I Got Somebody in Staunton By William Henry Lewis |
Helen Carr | June 24 3:00-5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| August | Non-Fiction | The New
Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness |
Dorothy Davis | August 19 3:00-5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |
| OctobeR | Non-Fiction | TBA | Adeela Al-Khalili | October 21 3:00-5:00 PM |
Josephine School Community Museum |