VCU Libraries Black History Month Lecture

Fifty years after the Student-led Sit-Ins: Where are we now?

http://www.library.vcu.edu/bhm/events.html 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
7:30 p.m.W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue
Richmond, VA

In February 1960, African American students and others began to 
participate in sit-in demonstrations at lunch counters throughout the 
South. These protests against segregation in public facilities received 
national attention and precipitated the passage of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964 which extended voting rights, outlawed racial segregation in 
schools, the workplace, and in public facilities. Join us for a panel 
discussion exploring the legacy of those protests including the state of 
Black America and race relations 50 years after the student-led sit-ins

Panelists:

Jenny Jones, PhD., Associate Professor of Social Work, VCU
Napoleon Peoples, PhD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, VCU
Jill Rowe, PhD., Assistant Professor, African American Studies, VCU
Shawn O. Utsey, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of 
African American Studies, VCU

Moderated by Njeri Jackson, PhD., Associate Professor of Political 
Science and Special Assistant for Diversity in the Office of the 
Provost, VCU

Free and open to the public.  Parking is available for a fee in the West 
Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. 

If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 827-1165 or 
(804) 827-1163 prior to February 5, 2010.

http://www.library.vcu.edu/bhm/events.html


-- 
Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
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804-828-1108

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