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Subject:	Lecture this Wed. - Feminism Matters - How Women Reshaped Virginia in the late 20th century - lecture by Dr. Megan Taylor Shockley, this Wed., Nov. 20, 2013
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Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:45:05 -0500
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Lecture is this week - join us for the 5th Annual VCU Crenshaw Lecture on
Women's History on Wed., Nov. 20, 2013, 11:30 at VCU's Scott House, 909 W.
Franklin St.

This year's speaker is Dr. Megan Taylor Shockley, Professor of History and
Coordinator of the Public History Program, Clemson University. She is past
executive secretary of the Southern Association for Women Historians. The
title of her talk is *"FEMINISM MATTERS: How Women Reshaped Virginia in the
late 20th Century."*

Dr. Shcokley is the author of *We, Too, Are Americans: African American
Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954* (2004) and *The Captain’s Widow
of Sandwich: Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess,
1834-1917 *(2010). She is also a coauthor, with Cynthia Kierner and
Jennifer R. Loux, of *Changing History: Virginia Women Through Four
Centuries* (2013). Copies of the book will be on sale at the event.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments to follow.

Please pass this email on to people you think would be interested in
attending - thank you.