Please join us online for a talk by Arlisha Norwood, recently a Virginia
Humanities research fellow at the Library. Her fascinating subject, "Times
Too Hard: Single African American Women in Post–Civil War Virginia," will
be presented virtually on Thursday, January 19, from 12:00-1:00pm. See
below for more information. The talk is free, but registration required at
https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/10166090.

Virginia Humanities Research Fellow Talk | Times Too Hard: Single African
American Women in Post–Civil War Virginia Online

Join us online as Arlisha Norwood, Ph.D., a Virginia Humanities Fellow at
the Library, offers a talk on her research exploring the experiences of
single African American women in Virginia during the tumultuous post–Civil
War years. Despite the obstacles they faced, single Black women asserted
their needs, worked together to prevent destitution, and challenged the
agendas of governmental agencies and private organizations whose
well-meaning intentions often clashed with their own expectations. Their
narratives exhibit how the women intentionally altered the roles and
responsibilities of federal and local agencies and became prominent
characters in defining freedom, welfare, citizenship and womanhood in the
19th and early 20th centuries. Norwood is an assistant professor of history
at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Klaczynski at
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