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PAULI MURRAY V. UNC: WRESTLING WITH CHANGE IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH
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Center for the Study of the American South, Southern Historical Collection, Carolina Women’s Center, School of Information and Library Science, Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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November 3, 2010
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
PAULI MURRAY V. UNC: WRESTLING WITH CHANGE IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH
A panel discussion in association with the Pauli Murray Centennial Celebration
Wilson Special Collections Library Pleasants Family Assembly Room
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public
5:15 p.m. reception and viewing of the exhibit Pauli Murray: Birth of an Activist
6 p.m. program
Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a nationally known African American civil rights advocate, historian, attorney, poet, activist, feminist, teacher, and Episcopal priest.
Panelists will discuss Murray’s unsuccessful attempts in 1938-39 to gain admittance to the applied social work program in UNC’s sociology department, and the continuing relevance of Murray’s activism.
Panelists include:
Leslie Brown • Jerry Gershenhorn • Glenda Gilmore • James Leloudis • Genna Rae McNeil • Anne Firor Scott
Pauli Murray, 1941. Credit: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Information: Center for the Study of the American South, (919) 962-5665
Sponsors: Duke Human Rights Center Pauli Murray Project
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Center for the Study of the American South, Southern Historical Collection, Carolina Women’s Center, School of Information and Library Science, Stone Center for Black Culture and History
PAULI MURRAY V. UNC: WRESTLING WITH CHANGE IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH
A panel discussion in association with the Pauli Murray Centennial Celebration
Wilson Special Collections Library Pleasants Family Assembly Room
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public
5:15 p.m. reception and viewing of the exhibit Pauli Murray: Birth of an Activist
6 p.m. program
Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a nationally known African American civil rights advocate, historian, attorney, poet, activist, feminist, teacher, and Episcopal priest.
Panelists will discuss Murray’s unsuccessful attempts in 1938-39 to gain admittance to the applied social work program in UNC’s sociology department, and the continuing relevance of Murray’s activism.
Panelists include:
Leslie Brown • Jerry Gershenhorn • Glenda Gilmore • James Leloudis • Genna Rae McNeil • Anne Firor Scott
Pauli Murray, 1941. Credit: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Information: Center for the Study of the American South, (919) 962-5665
Sponsors: Duke Human Rights Center Pauli Murray Project
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Center for the Study of the American South, Southern Historical Collection, Carolina Women’s Center, School of Information and Library Science, Stone Center for Black Culture and History