Join us for the official book launch and reception of The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of I. DeQuincey Newman, published by the University of South Carolina Press and edited by Sadye L. M. Logan with foreword by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and prologue by James E. Clyburn. The event will be held Thursday, September 25 at the South Carolina State Library in Columbia, 1500 Senate Street from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Parking is available in the lot behind the library off Bull Street. Signed copies may be pre-ordered via sadyel@mailbox.sc.edu or call 803-777-3912. Copies of the book will also be for sale at the signing. For more information, please visit http://sadyel.wix.com/dreammakers. For additional book talks and signings at the South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book, please visit http://readsc.org/events.