Tuckahoe Real Stories Book Discussion
In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. Join us for a discussion of The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones.
Find the related author talk on February 24, 2022.
This program will be held in the Tuckahoe Meeting Room and also online at Webex.
Meeting number: 2633 879 9334
Password: HCPL (4275 from phone and video systems)
Join by phone: +1-415-655-0001 US Toll
Access code: 2633 879 9334
- Date:
- Tue Feb 15th 2022
- Time:
- 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
- Location:
- TU Meeting Room
- Library:
- Tuckahoe Area Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Book Discussion
