The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

Thursday, May 27 at 7:00 p.m.

Southwest Regional Library, 3605 Shannon Road

Shirley Temple was one of the most famous movie stars of the 20th century. Dr. John Franklin Kasson, a current fellow at the National Humanities Center, visits the Durham County Library's newly-opened Southwest Regional Library to talk about the child actor's popularity in the midst of the Great Depression.

Image: Film still from Stand Up and Cheer, 1934

• Marian Fragola
• mfragola@durhamcountync.gov
• 919-560-0268