Gwinnett County Public Library Celebrates Rosa Park's Birthday with Jon Odell and Margaret Block-February 6, 2015, 7PM

CELEBRATE ROSA PARK’S BIRTHDAY with the bestselling author of Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League, Jon Odell, and 1960’s civil rights activist Margaret Block, a veteran of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.

Jon Odell, author of The Healing and Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League, was born and raised in Mississippi. He will be joined by civil rights activist Margaret Block, a native of the Mississippi Delta, a poet and a veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. She served as the secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee established by the civil rights protestors in Mississippi in the 1960’s and is a veteran of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Block received the 2005 Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Award from Mississippi Valley State University.

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