Attending a Reading by Leon Dash :: Rosa Lee Leon Dash

Rosa Lee and Leon Dash The Reading Brown Series hosted a reading by Leon Dash at the YMCA. Professor Dash was natural in 1944 in Massachusetts, but he grew up in the Bronx of brand-new York. He worked as a writer from 1966-1968 for the Washington Post. He was in addition in the Peace Corp shortly after traveling end-to-end Africa. He later went back to the Washington Post and has since done studies on various things. I had a hard time trying to pick up out exactly where the reading was going to take place as I walked almost the YMCA. I finally got the guts to walk up to someone and ask for help, the male phenomenon. The event took place in a back elbow room behind the kitchen. The room had four tables put in concert as to look like two. There were many chairs and few spate to fill them as I walked in. There were a handful of tribe in the room and most seated around the tables set up in a V-shape from the podium. The room slowly firsted to fill as it came imminen t to twelve oclock. As I looked around the room, I maxim the bleacher section, a set of 12 chairs to the side of the room outside(a) from the speaker nearly filled. Most of those seats seemed to be occupied by students who appeared to be taking notes. The rest of the room had an odd accumulation of plurality. For a reading based around the commemoration of the Brown vs. Board of tuition case, there was only one African American in the room besides the speaker. There were many older white people who gave the mental picture that they were faculty. A few of them and others brought lunch in on a tray or in a bag, presumably on their lunch break. The room looked as if it was split fifty-fifty between students and faculty. I would guess that there were around 20 to 25 people in the room. The room was large replete and had enough seating to make it seem as if the people were really spread out. There was very little interaction between the people before and during the event. It seemed as though everyone was just eager for the reading to start and finish.