**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

E. Dolores Johnson will discuss her new book, Say I'm Dead, A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and Love, a multi-generational memoir that reveals America's changing attitudes towards race mixing, discovered through the remarkable journeys of her family’s women. Learn about family secrets, separation, courage and transformation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time and lynching for violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940's, Dolores's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo, New York. 

Dolores will be interviewed by Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, a critically acclaimed memoir exploring her life as a Filipino immigrant who survived cancer and childhood abuse.

About Dolores: A former longtime Andover resident, E. Dolores Johnson is the daughter of a black father and white mother who married 25 years before the famous Supreme Court Loving decision that overturned anti-race mixing laws. Her book has received a starred review from the American Library Association and won the 2020 Outstanding Literary Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. She has published essays on mixed race, racism and identity, and consulted on diversity with colleges, corporations and non-profit boards.
 Johnson holds a BA from Howard University, an MBA from Harvard Business School and completed an MFA equivalent creative writing program. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE. (Note the late 7:30pm start time.) Sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library. Presented in collaboration with Libraries Working Towards Social Justice and the Merrimack Valley Branch of the NAACP.