Come join us with co-authors Phebe Hayes and Margaret Simon celebrating the launch of their new book, WERE YOU THERE?: A Biography of Emma Wakefield-Paillet, including a presentation and signing. --- WERE YOU THERE? travels through the life of Emma Wakefield-Paillet as she breaks away from the oppression of the post-Civil War southern life to successfully become the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the state of Louisiana. As she grows up in Reconstruction-era New Ib...
