Free workshop: War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights—1861 to 1960s
Acclaimed historian Dr. Jane Dailey of the University of Chicago will speak at a free public workshop relating to Petersburg and its relevance to Virginia and American history. The workshop will be Feb. 2, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, at Union Station, 103 River Street, Petersburg. The workshop, entitled “War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights—1861 to 1960s,” […]
Acclaimed historian Dr. Jane Dailey of the University of Chicago will speak at a free public workshop relating to Petersburg and its relevance to Virginia and American history. The workshop will be Feb. 2, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 pm, at Union Station, 103 River Street, Petersburg.
The workshop, entitled “War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights—1861 to 1960s,” is third in a series of four workshops on “African Americans in the Context of the Atlantic World—Focus on Petersburg, Virginia” jointly organized by the Institute for the Study of Race Relations and the Department of History and Philosophy of Virginia State University, and Petersburg 2007, the Petersburg Steering Committee for Jamestown 2007. The program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of its national “We the People” projects.
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