Author Event at the DuBois-Robeson People’s Center During the 2025 Bookstore Crawl!

The DuBois-Robeson People’s Center is excited to be a part of the 2025 Philly Bookstore Crawl on Saturday August 23rd! This social justice focused community center will be open for book browsing and shopping from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., and will host a talk at 12PM with author Denise Lynn about her new book Women March for Peace: Black Radical Women’s Anti-Korean War Activism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2025).

“In Women March for Peace, Denise Lynn examines the lives of seven Black women—Louise Thompson Patterson, Claudia Jones, Charlotta Bass, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Eslanda Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, and Beulah Richardson—and their resistance to domestic and foreign US policies during the height of anticommunist hysteria. While much peace scholarship focuses on the threat of nuclear conflict, Lynn instead explores how these women connected issues of civil rights at home with international military campaigns, highlights the hypocrisy of containment policies that sought to secure the freedom and rights for Koreans when US citizens were still oppressed. Lynn traces their peace advocacy through their personal papers, local and national articles, Progressive Party documents, and global conventions. Women March for Peace recovers the radical activism of these Black women to understand a crucial chapter in the fight against American imperialism and white supremacy.”

The DuBois-Robeson People’s Center is located at 4515 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, 19143. In-person purchases during the Book Crawl can be made via their Ko-Fi site (https://ko-fi.com/drpc). You can learn more about the center via their website.

Find additional info about the 2025 Philly Bookstore Crawl on our map and list of participating bookstores, News + Updates page where we post event descriptions, and via instagram @PhillyBookCrawl