FORUM FRIDAYS: VIRTUAL VIRGINIA FORUM TALKS

Fighting for Freedom: Black Activism in the Civil War–era Lower Shenandoah
Valley
Friday, August 20, 2021 from 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Online
Free, but registration required.

Join us for a series of virtual presentations on Virginia history and
culture from scholars across the state. This series offers some of the most
compelling sessions that had been proposed for the 2020 Virginia Forum
conference, which was cancelled due to the pandemic. The annual event
brings together teachers, students, and professionals interested in
Virginia history and culture to present, discuss, and reconsider the story
of the commonwealth. Free and open to the general public, this
collaboration with the Library of Virginia will share the online sessions
with a wider audience. Events are scheduled for July 23, August 6, August
20, and September 17, 2021.


On August 20, historians Jonathan Berkey (professor of history, Concord
University) and Jonathan Noyalas (director of Shenandoah University's
McCormick Civil War Institute) discuss *Black Activism in the Civil War–era
Lower Shenandoah Valley.* Through an examination of the experiences of
enslaved people in the lower Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War’s first
year and the “Bologna Riot” in Reconstruction-era Charles Town, West
Virginia, Berkey and Noyalas will offer perspectives on the ways in which
African Americans asserted themselves personally and politically in the
complex environment of Virginia’s Lower Shenandoah Valley during a
tumultuous decade that included civil war, emancipation, and political
reconstruction.


For more information, contact Ashley Ramey at [log in to unmask] or
804.692.3001.
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