Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett is a Portland writer and the author of Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights, published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2015. Her book is the first comprehensive biography of Golden, the bestselling author whose one-man newspaper and hugely popular books, "Only in America," "For 2-cents Plain" and many others, used wry humor and blunt observations to raise awareness of the Jewish role in fighting for civil rights in this country. Kimberly is a former daily newspaper journalist who grew up in the newspaper business, starting with the weekly paper published by her mother in Massachusetts in the 1960-70s.  She worked for daily newspapers in New England and the Pacific Northwest for more than 30 years, including a decade at The Seattle Times as a writer and editor. We hope you will join us for her lecture, "Jewish Women and Civil Rights: Behind the Scenes, Around the Table, and on the Picket Line". 

Please join us every Tuesday evening this January for our Lifelong Learning Lecture Series. All lectures are open to the public and will be held in Zidell Hall of Rose Schnitzer Manor at 7:00 pm.