Libraries Hosts Book Reading: Cathy Wilkerson, Flying Close to the Sun
Cathy Wilkerson will read from Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. Wilkerson was active in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Weathermen. In 1970, she was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family's townhouse that killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground. For the past twenty years she has taught mathematics in New York City schools. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966, worked in the national office of the SDS, and witnessed the results of the Cuban Revolution first hand. She was very active in civil rights and the women's movement.
