August 4, 2025, I’ll be talking about Samuel Wilbert Tucker and America’s first civil rights sit-in from 5:30-7:00 pm. Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in will be available for sale and signing.
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Nancy Noyes Silcox has been selected to participate in the Minnesota Author Tour sponsored by the Southeastern Libraries Cooperating (SELCO). Public libraries in southeastern Minnesota invite vetted Minnesota authors to speak about their work. Visit the Minnesota Author Tour website for details to schedule an author visit. https://legacy.selco.info/minnesota-author-tour
Continue reading: SELCO’s Minnesota Author Tour 2025Hope to see you at the Rosemont Writers Festival and Book Fair on Saturday, March 15th. I’ll be there with A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm Minnesota 1856-1862 and Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the…
Continue reading: Rosemont Writers Festival and Book FairBeth Cornish’s article in the Henderson Independent News (Sept 20, 2024) praised Nancy’s author talk at the Henderson Public Library. https://www.hendersonindependentnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/nancy-noyes-silcox-presents-a-place-called-home/article_664b1e5c-7635-11ef-b4b0-3b2da661efca.html
Continue reading: Henderson, MN Library Author Talk PraisedHook Students on Minnesota History will feature Nancy Noyes Silcox’s new book A Place Called Home about German Immigrants from Cincinnati who seek security, opportunity and freedom in New Ulm, a new settlement on the Minnesota frontier. MEA 2024 is Oct. 17th at Saint Paul RiverCentre, 175 West Kellogg Boulevard,…
Continue reading: Minnesota Education Association Conference Oct 17thMeet the author, Nancy Noyes Silcox, and hear about A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm, Minnesota 1856-1862. It’s the story of young Carolina Beck and her family who are driven from Cincinnati, Ohio, by rising hostilities toward immigrants. They travel by…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home at Twin Cities Book Festival Oct. 19thOn August 24, 2024, the Brown County Historical Society in New Ulm, Minnesota, will host an author talk and book signing for A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm, Minnesota 1856-1862. The event begins at 12 noon in the museum annex and…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home Release Date50 North, 1651 Jefferson Parkway, Northfield MN 55057 Refused a library card at the public library, twenty-six-year-old African American lawyer Samuel W. Tucker organized a sit-in to protest the library’s whites-only policy in 1939. He defended the protesters when they were arrested for disorderly conduct. Facing down Virginia’s “massive resistance”…
Continue reading: Author Talk at 50 North, Northfield, MN June 21, 2024Telling Samuel Wilbert Tucker’s story in the Alexandria, VA church his family attended and where he played the piano, was especially meaningful for me. I was thrilled to be invited and pleased so many people, including neighbors, wanted to know more about Tucker and his work to desegregate public libraries…
Continue reading: Tucker Talk at Zion Baptist Church, Feb. 12, 2023The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In. The earliest known sit-in for civil rights occurred at the Alexandria (Virginia) Public Library on August 21, 1939. In Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Nancy Silcox charts the story of a young African American lawyer who grew up in Alexandria…
Continue reading: Author Talk at Arlington Central Library, Feb 26th, 7pm