Description: The Auburn Avenue Research Library, in partnership with the Southern Center for Human Rights, will host author Janet Dewart Bell, who will discuss her publication, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. In Lighting the Fires of Freedom, Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women’s all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Lighting the Fires of Freedom is a vital document for understanding the Civil Rights Movement, and an enduring testament to the vitality of women’s leadership, during one of the most dramatic periods of American history. Janet Dewart Bell is a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch University. She founded the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society series at the New York University School of Law. An award-winning television and radio producer, she lives in New York City.

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