October 23, 2000
RELEASE ON RECEIPT

Book Signing--11 a.m.,
Oberlin Bookstore,
37 W. College St.

Panel Discussion:
"Martin Luther King and Religion."

2 p.m., Rm. 106,
King Bldg.,
10 N. Professor St.

Guest Talk:
"Freedom on Two Feet: Equal Souls, Equal Voices"

8 p.m,. Root Room,
Carnegie Bldg.
52 W. Lorain St.

Free public event
For more information
please call Sandra Kolek 440/775-8285, Ext. 234.

Media Contact:
Betty.Gabrielli@oberlin.edu
http://www.oberlin.edu

OBERLIN, OHIO--Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch--author of a monumental study of America in the Martin Luther King years--will visit Oberlin College and community, Saturday, November 4 as part of the Friends of the Library annual celebration.

While in Oberlin, Branch will sign books at the Oberlin Bookstore and take part in a panel discussion focusing on "Martin Luther King and Religion." Panel members include A.G. Miller, Oberlin College associate professor of religion, and Pamela Brooks, associate professor of African-American Studies.

At 8 P.M., Branch will explore King’s core message in an address titled "Freedom on Two Feet: Equal Souls, Equal Voices."

The book signing, panel discussion and talk are free and open to the public. The talk will follow the Friends of the Library dinner. Those wishing to attend the reception and dinner should contact Sandra Kolek at the Oberlin College Main Library (775-8285, Ext. 234).

The first volume of Branch’s trilogy, Parting the Waters: American in the King Years, 1954-63, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for history and the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.

His second volume, Pillar of Fire: American in the King Years, 1964-65, won both the Sidney Hillman Book Award and the Imus Book Award in 1999. Both volumes were national best-sellers.

The author is currently working on the trilogy’s third and final volume, At Canaan’s Edge.

Branch’s visit is sponsored by the Friends of the Oberlin College Library, the President’s Office, the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the African-American Studies Department, the History Department, and the Mead-Swing Lectureship Committee.

Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli 10/23/00 #36 bg