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SUMMARY:The First Civil Rights: Black Political Activism After Claiming Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join the Library of Virginia and Virginia Humanities to 
 celebrate Black History Month and the completion of a signature project to 
 document the lives and achievements of Virginia's first Black legislators. 
 Editors of the Library's Dictionary of Virginia Biography joined this 
 project in 2011 in collaboration with the commonwealth's Martin Luther King 
 Jr. Memorial Commission to research and write the definitive life histories 
 of the 92 African American men who served in the General Assembly from 1869 
 to 1890. Their stories are now part of the collective digital story of our 
 state thanks to the collaboration with Encyclopedia Virginia\, a rich 
 online resource published by Virginia Humanities.\n\nPanelists for the 
 program\, moderated by Virginia Humanities executive director Matthew 
 Gibson\, will include the Honorable Viola Baskerville\, one of the founders 
 of the project\; public historian and University of Richmond adjunct 
 assistant professor Lauranett Lee\; Ajena Rogers\, supervisory park ranger 
 at the National Park Service's Maggie L. Walker Historic Site and a 
 descendant of Black legislator James A. Fields\; and historian and author 
 Brent Tarter\, a retired editor with the Library of Virginia.\n\nFor more 
 information\, contact Elizabeth Klaczynski at 804.692.3536 or 
 elizabeth.klaczynski@lva.virginia.gov. Registration is required.
LOCATION:Lecture Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Catherine Wyatt":MAILTO:catherine.fitzgeraldwyatt@lva.virginia.gov
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Catherine Wyatt":MAILTO:catherine.fitzgeraldwyatt@lva.virginia.gov
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