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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13

Lecture With Gretchen Sorin,
Author 'Driving While Black'

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DRIVING WHILE BLACK – 7 – 9 p.m. Distinguished professor Gretchin Sorin presents on her seminal work ‘Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights’ about how the car gave some escape from the Jim Crow Laws. She will also be showing clips from the Emmy winning documentary based on her work. Free, open to the public. Lee Hall Great Room, SUNY Oneonta. Visit oneontanaacp.com

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