Category: Books
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.
Continue reading: Northfield History Center InvitationNancy 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 FairThe 2023 revision of the Virginia Studies Curriculum added Samuel Wilbert Tucker to the Virginia Studies curriculum that all 4th graders study. Tucker, a young Alexandria lawyer, organized the 1939 sit-in at the Alexandria Library to challenge their segregation-era policy of only allowing white people to use the public library….
Continue reading: Samuel Wilbert Tucker added to Virginia History CurriculumBeth 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, 2024