BOOKS: Book Talk with author Gayle Romasanta
Date and Time
May 20, 2019 6:00 pm
Location
Brookland
625 Monroe St NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20017
May 20, 2019 6:00 pm
Brookland
Join us in the Pearl Bailey room for the National Book Tour 2019: Journey for Justice, The Life of Larry ItliongÂ
The historically significant book Journey for Justice: The Life ofLarry Itliong will make its stop in Washington DC on Monday, May 20, at Busboy and Poets (Brookland location). As the first book about Larry Itliong, co-founder of theUnited Farm Workers Union (UFW) with Cesar Chavez, the book also gives a glimpse of Filipino American history and the solidarity between Filipino and Mexican farm workers that created the largest farm labor movement in the history of the United States.
