Before Jeannine A. Cook was the owner and curator of Harriett's Bookshop, she was a voracious reader. Cook was the little girl who read the Bible with her sister by candlelight, the student who stealthily flipped through banned classics, such as"The Color Purple," and most importantly, the daughter of a former librarian.
Opened on Feb. 1, 2020, the store is based in Philly's Fishtown neighborhood and named for Black revolutionary and historical heroine Harriet Tubman. As the canon of great American literature is often whitewashed and male-dominated,Cook said,"Even when I was younger, we're reading"Beowulf" I'm reading Alice Walker.
She had been told countless times that her dream wouldn't come to fruition. Using her writing, marketing and digital engagement skills, she worked several freelance gigs to support her family and to pursue her dreams and purpose. Having received a citation from her congresswoman for Women's History Month,"honoring her as one of the women of the 175th dedicated to community," Cook has adopted Tubman's spirit of activism through the work of her bookshop. In the spring of 2020, the store launched an initiative called Essentials for Essentials, in which community members would buy books for hospital workers in the Philadelphia area.
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