The Alexandria-Caen Sister Cities Committee invites you to the City of Alexandria’s 11th Annual D-Day Commemoration lecture (the second of two 2021 D-Day lectures).
Friday, June 4th
12:00 noon
Free virtual lecture – register here https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_c09H1FqNS8anHYIEwqpYrA
Linda Hervieux, Paris-based American journalist, photographer and author of Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War, the story of D-Day’s only African-American combat soldiers, who were effectively written out of the history of the Normandy invasion.
Tom Brokaw called FORGOTTEN “utterly compelling,” and Douglas Brinkley said “all Americans should read” this battalion’s journey through segregated Jim Crow America to unexpected freedom in Britain and France. Hervieux has lectured extensively on the African-Americans of D-Day and World War II at Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, the Imperial War Museum in London, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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