In anticipation of next year’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of
the Brown school desegregation decision, a gathering of veterans of the
Virginia Civil Rights struggle will participate in a round-table
discussion sponsored by VCU Libraries.

VCU Libraries is pleased to sponsor a round-table discussion of the
Prince Edward School closing and the mid-20th century civil rights
movement in Virginia, Separate But Not Equal: Race, Education and
Virginia on Wednesday, February 26, 2003. This event will gather
together civil rights veterans and students who were directly affected
by the closing of the Prince Edward County Schools in the 1950s & 1960s.
Reception to follow.

The event will be held Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 7:00 p.m., School
of Business Auditorium, 1015 Floyd Avenue, Virginia Commonwealth
University

Panelists include:

Ms. Jean Fairfax, formerly with the American Friends Service Committee
(AFSC) and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, human rights and
philanthropic activist.

Dr. Vonita Foster, Director of the L. Douglas Wilder Library at Virginia
Union University, native of Prince Edward County, and co-author of
Silent Trumpets of Justice: Integration’s Failure in Prince Edward
County.

Reverend Curtis Harris, past president of the Virginia State Unit of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), NAACP, VCHR and pastor
of Union Baptist Church in Hopewell, Virginia.

Reverend Heslip “Happy” Lee, former Executive Director of the Virginia
Council on Human Relations (VCHR) and the Southern Regional Council
(SRC), other civil rights and anti-poverty organizations.

Senator Henry Marsh, III, Virginia state legislator, lawyer, civil
rights activist, former Mayor of Richmond.

Dr. Edward Peeples, Emeritus professor, VCU, public health educator,
civil rights activist, researcher and essayist.

Moderator: Honorable James W. Benton, Jr., Judge, Court of Appeals of
Virginia.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Public parking is
available in the Main Street Parking Deck, 801 W. Main Street. If
special accommodations are needed, please contact Kimberly Separ at
828-1105 or email [log in to unmask]


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Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
VCU Libraries

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