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Book Club for Adults

In-Person Program
2025-02-19 15:00:00 2025-02-19 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Book Club for Adults Join us for book club as we discuss Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter. Copies of this title are available at the Information Desk. For ages 18 and up. San Gabriel Library - Meeting Room

Wednesday, February 19
3:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-02-19 15:00:00 2025-02-19 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Book Club for Adults Join us for book club as we discuss Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter. Copies of this title are available at the Information Desk. For ages 18 and up. San Gabriel Library - Meeting Room

San Gabriel Library

Meeting Room

Join us for book club as we discuss Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter. Copies of this title are available at the Information Desk. For ages 18 and up.

Eunice Hunton Carter, Stephen Carter’s grandmother, was raised in a world of stultifying expectations about race and gender, yet by the 1940s, her professional and political successes had made her one of the most famous black women in America. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a white male. Without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books, Poetry, & Writing |

TAGS: | Book Club | African American & Black History Month |

San Gabriel Library
Phone: 626.287.0761
Hours
Mon, Jul 14 Closed
Tue, Jul 15 12:00PM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 16 12:00PM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jul 17 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Jul 18 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jul 19 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Jul 20 Closed
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About the branch

San Gabriel Library was founded in 1915 and moved to its present site in 1967. The non-profit Friends of the San Gabriel Library organization was founded in 1967 to support and promote awareness of the Library and its services.  An interior mural painted by accomplished Native American artist Robert Freeman in 1984 depicts life at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in the late eighteenth century while recognizing the importance of the indigenous people of the area, the Gabrielino-Tongva Nation.

The library underwent a refurbishment in 2007 that added an elevator tower, enhanced community room, updated technology, new furnishings, and a bright and colorful redesign which included a paint restoration of the mural. 

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