Author Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement.

Event Dates and Information:

Friday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA

Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 Ocean St

Friday April 10 | 6pm | Film

Inner Light Center | 5630 Soquel Dr.

Wednesday April 29 | 6pm | Tour of SC County Jail

Take a tour of our local jail | Please pre-register

Saturday May 2 | 1pm | Resource Fair & Round Table

Downtown SC Library | 224 Church  St.

*Book Circles

April 12 | 2pm | SC Library 224 Church St.

April 21 | 6pm | Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr.

April 25 | 4pm | Live Oak Family Resource Center 1740 17th Ave.