Lecturer To Examine Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education

Contact: Peggy Friedenberg-President, Board of Governors (804) 726-7371 Hans S. Falck Lectureship Series on Social Responsibility Examines Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education William Byrd Community House is pleased to announce the next lecture in its Hans S. Falck Lectureship on Social Responsibility entitled: Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education: A Case Study in Social Change. […]

October 16, 2008; 11:54 PM • by Oregon Hill

Contact: Peggy Friedenberg-President, Board of Governors
(804) 726-7371

Hans S. Falck Lectureship Series on Social Responsibility
Examines Civil Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education

William Byrd Community House is pleased to announce the next lecture in
its Hans S. Falck Lectureship on Social Responsibility entitled: Civil
Rights and Race Relations in Virginia Public Education: A Case Study in
Social Change. The Richmond Peace Education Center and VCU School of
Social Work have joined with the William Byrd Community House as
co-sponsors. (The VCU School of Social Work has approved the event for .2
CEUs.)

The lecture will confront the issue of integration and segregation in
Virginia Schools in the 1950’s and 60’s by bringing together a panel of
people who experienced firsthand the closing of Prince Edward County
Public Schools during this tumultuous time.

The panel will:
• Share their stories about how they responded to the events of the
time.
• Consider how these events changed their lives.
• Offer insights about the changes that we are anticipating now.

Panelists:
Dr. Woody Holton – panel discussion moderator and author of Unruly
Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (New York: Hill and Wang,
2007).

Brian Grogan – producer of “They Closed our Schools,” a documentary film
on the history of the public school crisis in Prince Edward County.

Dorothy Holcomb – fourth grade student in Prince Edward County Public
Schools when the schools closed in 1959.

Dr. Teresa Clark – an elementary student, when Prince Edward County public
schools were closed in 1959.

When: Thursday, October 23, 2008
7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Where: St. Andrew’s School Auditorium
236 S Laurel St., Richmond, VA 23220

For additional information and directions call: 804-643-2717 or visit the
WBCH website at: http://wbch.org.

The Hans S. Falck Lectureship Series on Social Responsibility was created
by William Byrd Community House to bring in highly acclaimed speakers to
discuss major social issues and challenge the thinking of Richmond’s
community, business and social service organizations about how best to
address the issues and needs of our community. The new lectureship was
named after Dr. Hans S. Falck, a nationally renowned social work scholar
and leader in the settlement house movement of which WBCH was a part.
Founded in 1923 during the Settlement House Movement, William Byrd
Community House provides families of Richmond’s inner-city neighborhoods
with a full range of prevention-oriented, community-based programs to
empower the individual, strengthen the family and enhance city
neighborhoods. William Byrd Community House gives the working poor access
to services for their most pressing needs such as viable housing, health
care, employment and education. The goal of the agency is to work with
community partners to find the appropriate pathway for economic success,
for the people who walk through the door looking for help.

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