Roberta Beary, author of The Unworn Necklace, and the winner of the Poetry Society of America Finalist Award will read her poems at The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library as it celebrates Women’s History Month with a presentation by the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) in the Great Hall, located on the 1st floor.

In the autumn of 1917, women across America awaited the Senate's vote on the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which, when ratified in 1920 by two-thirds of the state legislatures, would give women suffrage. A group of 15 women booksellers-excluded from membership in the all-male Bookseller's League-met in Sherwood's Book Store, 19 John Street, in downtown New York to form the Women's National Book Association.