Humanities & Social Sciences Talk to examine Montgomery bus boycott
| Talk to examine Montgomery bus boycott |
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| Monday, January 07, 2008 | |
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Danielle McGuire, an assistant professor at Wayne State University, will speak on “Rape and the Roots of the Montgomery Bus Boycott” at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in UNC’s George Watts Hill Alumni Center on Stadium Drive. Sparked by the arrest of the late Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955, the boycott was an 11-month protest that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public bus segregation is unconstitutional. McGuire, currently a fellow at UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, will speak on the boycott as not only the start of the Civil Rights movement, but also the last act in a struggle to protect black women from sexual violence. The free public talk in the Royall Room of the alumni center will be the first of six James A. Hutchins Lectures during spring semester. They are presented by UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South with support from the UNC General Alumni Association. Other topics will include global tobacco use; former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms and American AIDS policy; and statelessness and violence that black women faced after the Civil War. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/Hutchins/index.html. The lectures honor the late Hutchins (1917-2002), a 1937 graduate of Carolina who spent much of his life fighting world hunger. Dee photo URL: http://www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk/rubydee.jpg News Services contacts: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ; LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589 |
