Zaakir Tameez Presents- Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

Join them as they welcome Zaakir Tameez, Fulbright Scholar and Humanity in Action Senior Fellow, to Left Bank Books. They will be celebrating his “sumptuous biography” Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.

In a comprehensive but fast-paced narrative, Zaakir Tameez presents Sumner as one of America’s forgotten founding fathers, a constitutional visionary who helped to rewrite the post-Civil War Constitution and give birth to modern civil rights law. He argues that Sumner was a gay man who battled with love and heartbreak at a time when homosexuality wasn’t well understood or accepted. And he explores Sumner’s critical partnerships with the nation’s first generation of Black lawyers and civil rights leaders, whose legal contributions to Reconstruction have been overlooked for far too long.

Tameez will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on July 21st.