Historians Brian J. Daugherity, assistant professor of history at VCU, and
Brian E. Lee, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, visit the James Branch Cabell Library's Special
Collections and Archives for a talk at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10, about
their article "Program of Action: The Rev. L. Francis Griffin and the
Struggle for Racial Equality in Farmville, 1963," forthcoming in the *Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography*. The talk is free and open to the
public, and a reception follows.

The protesters, many of them Farmville, Virginia students, were demanding
that local and state authorities eliminate racial segregation in public
facilities and reopen the public schools in Prince Edward County which had
been closed since 1959 to avoid integration. Rev. L. Francis Griffin,
pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmville, organized the protests which
was called by the student protestors a "Program of Action."




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Ray Bonis
Archives Coordinator
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
901 Park Ave. VCU Box 842033
Richmond, VA 23284-2033

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