Author Visit: Philip Dray (Warner Library)
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June 17, 2023
Historian and author Philip Dray will discuss his latest book A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age which details the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, a 28-year-old African American in what was then the Village of Port Jervis in Orange County.
Mr. Dray is the author of several books about American cultural and political history; he is known for his comprehensive analyses of American scientific, racial, and labor history.
This program will take place in the Library Reading Room. Free and open to all.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase & signing.
To read the New York Times review, click here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/books/review-lynching-port-jervis-philip-dray.html.
The book is available through the Westchester Library System.
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