Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, author of “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South and Civil Rights,” will speak at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Atkins Library Halton Reading Room.
Atkins Library Special Collections houses the Harry Golden Papers, which Hartnett utilized to write her book. Golden grew up on the Lower East Side of New York, and after a stint on Wall Street (closely followed by prison time for fraud), he landed in Charlotte, in the 1940s. He launched his newspaper, Carolina Israelite, which led to his first book "Only in America," a record-breaking bestseller in 1958. More than 20 popular books followed, along with a syndicated column and an enormous national audience from the 1950s to the ’70s.
Following this free, public talk, there will be a panel discussion featuring the author and Paula Eckard, director of American Studies, and Michael Sullivan, a graduate student in history. Mark West, professor of English, will moderate.