Many people associate Andrew Carnegie with steel. Far fewer people associate him with libraries. During his lifetime, Andrew Carnegie established over 2,500 around the world. Many of these “Carnegie Libraries” still exist in the present day. Join BCC profession Rick Feingold as he traces Andrew Carnegie’s life from his beginnings as a poor immigrant to his later success as millionaire and philanthropist.

Andrew Carnegie amassed an enormous fortune in the steel industry and then became a major philanthropist. During the late 19th century, when steel would be used first as railroad track, Carnegie perfected low-cost steel production. The Carnegie Steelworks, in Homestead, PA, employed men producing steel under primitive industrial working conditions. This program will feature the 1892 strike at Homestead which pitted the Pinkerton Detective Agency against the steelworkers ending with 10 deaths. After Carnegie sold his steel company to J.P. Morgan he gave all his money away through the building of over 2,500 libraries.

Tuesday, September 19
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Room 6 & 7 on the 2nd floor of the library.

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