Hidden Hospitality: Author Talk & Conversation featuring Calvin Stovall Jr.

Join Eaton, DC History Center and author Calvin Stovall Jr. on February 12th at 6:30 p.m. for en evening of examination and celebration of the stories of Black hotel entrepreneurs.

Through rare archival photographs, personal accounts, and historical context,  Stovall's book Hidden Hospitality (NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work Non-Fiction) uncovers how Black entrepreneurs built spaces of refuge, dignity, and self-determination within the American hospitality industry, often during times of extreme racial exclusion and violence. It is a Black history book told through a hospitality lens, centering stories that were nearly lost to time.

This event is free to all. To reserve a spot, click HERE.