Nonfiction Book Group for Adults

The Nonfiction Book Group for Adults is a new book group starting in September 2023. 

The Nonfiction Book Group for Adults meets on the 4th Monday of each month from 7:00 - 8:00 PM in September, October, November, January, February, March, and April. Books will be available at the Circulation Desk at Tufts Library. We'll read non-fiction books which focus on a one theme per year.

The theme for September 2023-April 2024 is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed on July 2, 1964, by President Johnson. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The law’s eleven sections prohibited discrimination in the workplace, public accommodations, public facilities, and agencies receiving federal funds, and strengthened prohibitions on school segregation and discrimination in voter registration.

September 25: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Todd S. Purdum (2014). Books available at Circulation Desk after Monday, August 14. A second meeting will be held on September 26 from 7:00-8:00 PM to read this same book. 

October 23: The Color of Law : a Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (2017)

November 27: The Making of Asian America : a History by Erika Lee (2015)

January 22: The Chosen : the Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel (2006)

February 26: Under the Skin : Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation by Linda Villarosa (2022)

March 25: Because of Sex : One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years that Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Thomas Gillian (2016)

April 22: Give us the Ballot : the Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman (2015)

New members are always welcome! Please register for an email reminder for each meeting.