Women’s History Month at Gwinnett Libraries

Upcoming Virtual Author and Speaker Programs

Each month the Gwinnett County Public Library brings bestselling and award-winning authors from a variety of genres to the library, offering readers exclusive opportunities to meet and engage with their favorite writers. All author events listed below are live & virtual.

A Women’s History Month Program for Children

Live Book Talk/Storytime with Children’s Author Deborah Hopkinson

Saturday, March 6 at 11:00 am

The book is Thanks to Frances Perkins-Fighter for Workers based on the life of a real-life woman hero. Frances Perkins witnessed the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911, she was forever changed.   Frances decided to work to bring about new laws and became the first female Secretary of Labor in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration and she created our Social Security program  

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In celebration of Women’s History Month

Author Carolyn Curry in conversation with President of Accent Creative Group, Pam Ledbetter.

Thursday, March 11
7 – 8 p.m.

Carolyn Curry is the founder of Women Alone Together and she is the award-winning author of the biography Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas 1824 – 1907.

Ella grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Georgia and attended Wesleyan, the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women. She kept a diary before, during, and after the Civil War.  Post-war she documents facing her bankruptcy, the death of four children, and the turmoil of reconstruction. She survives and thrives and was active in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Suffrage Movement.

Registration is required to access this event. Once registered, you will receive a link to access this event.