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[Chapter 19]: West Oakland Cultural Action Network Storytelling Session: In Conversation with Dorothy Lazard


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Join this conversation as Dorothy Lazard discusses her debut novel, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World (2023). Miss Dorothy is a retired Oakland Librarian with a story that spans in the early days of The Great Migration in the 1960’s. The ever changing landscape of Oakland calls for the preservation of personal narratives to show the rich history that remains rooted in the fabric of the culture.

Support Dorothy Lazard’s Work: https://dorothylazard.com/

This Librarian Holds the Keys to Oakland's History (link) - KQED article by Rightnow-ish’s Pen Hardshaw

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