Three women civil rights veterans will speak, and one will screen her film about the “desegregation and resegregation of U.S. public schools,” in two events March 16 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Three women civil rights veterans will speak, and one will screen her film about the “desegregation and resegregation of U.S. public schools,” in two events March 16 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Constance Curry, producer of the film, “The Intolerable Burden,” will screen and discuss her project at noon in Toy Lounge on the fourth floor of Dey Hall.
At 6 p.m., Curry will be joined by two other women veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the program: “Women of SNCC: Civil Rights Activism in the 1960s and Today.” The event will take place in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the FedEx Global Education Center.
Also speaking are Efia Nwangaza, an attorney and director of the Afrikan-Amerikan Institute for Policy Studies and Planning in Greenville, S.C., and Theresa El-Amin, the founder of the Southern Anti-Racism Network.
It’s all part of the Sites of Struggle Symposium, which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the department of African and Afro-American studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and the 50th anniversary of SNCC. SNCC was founded at Shaw University in Raleigh after the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in by N.C. A&T students in Greensboro.
For more information, contact Kia Caldwell, klcaldwe@email.unc.edu.
Web site: http://womenofsnccspeakout.web.unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu