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Graphic Memoirist to Present on Immigrant’s View of Civil Rights Movement

Graphic Memoirist to Present on Immigrant’s View of Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights era was rife with discord.

Graphic novelist Lila Quintero Weaver was 5 years old in 1961 when her family moved from their home in Argentina to central Alabama, just 27 miles from Selma. 

As a young immigrant in the Jim Crow South, Quintero Weaver remembers school desegregation. The marches from Selma in support of African-Americans’ right to vote and the violence surrounding it were the “hallmark events of the region,” she said.

Quintero Weaver will reflect on these pivotal moments in her presentation, “South American Eyes in the American South,” a free virtual event at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25.

Her presentation is hosted in partnership through University of Wisconsin-Stout and the Chippewa Valley Book Festival, which runs Sunday, Oct. 24, to Friday, Oct. 29. It is made possible with the technology assistance of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire. Advance registration is required.

Quintero Weaver is one of six national authors participating in the festival. 

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