Coming up: Civil rights icons headline book fest

By Lisa Provence |
Published online 3:45am Thursday Sep 20th, 2012
and in print issue #1139 dated Thursday Sep 27th, 2012

John Carlos recreates his Black Power salute after receiving an Olympic bronze medal in 1968 (inset, Carlos is on right with Tommie Smith, center).

photo by joe mabel

Civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis and Black Power Olympic medalist John Carlos are among the speakers coming to next spring's 19th Virginia Festival of the Book.

Lewis and Carlos will participate in a program called "American Icon" on Saturday, March 23, at the Paramount. Tickets to that event will go on sale in October.

The festival announced three other speakers for the March 20-24 bookathon. Betty Shotton, who graduated in UVA's first coed class, will be at the March 20 Leadership Breakfast. Historian Christopher Brinkley, author of Cronkite, headlines the March 21 Festival Luncheon, and C.J. Box speaks at the March 23 Crime Wave Brunch.

Tickets to those events go on sale September 20.

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1 comment

mer September 20th, 2012 | 4:58am

Anyone who might be in DC this Sat and Sun the Library
of Congress is having a book festival on the Mall that
has a lot of great writers.