Author Erin Goseer Mitchell to speak at Oakton March 21

Erin Goseer Mitchell brings her distinctive insight about growing up in the segregated Deep South to Oakton Community College’s Skokie campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in Room A145. The free lecture is open to the public and is part of Women’s History Month at Oakton.

Mitchell will discuss her two books, “Born Colored” and “From Colored to Black,” which focus on her childhood and wisdom of being a survivor of segregation. Mitchell was born in Selma, Alabama, and later moved to Fitzgerald, Georgia, one generation before the civil rights movement began.

“Erin lives in Chicago’s South Side and will detail how her early experiences shaped her life,” says Oakton Student Life Assistant Princess Escudero. “Her descriptions of growing up in Alabama and Georgia are extremely powerful. Attendees will find her lecture extremely inspirational and thought provoking.”

Mitchell taught for Chicago Public Schools for more than three decades and has a master’s degree in music from Roosevelt University.

This event is sponsored by the Oakton’s Office of Student Life and the Skokie Events Team.

For more information, call 847-635-1443.