UNCW Honors Scholars Program Presents Minnijean Brown-Trickey Lecture
3/5/2004 12:00:00 AM
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By Rebecca D’Amico, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. – The University of North Carolina at Wilmington Honors Scholars program, Academic Affairs and Learning Communities present a lecture by Minnijean Brown-Trickey at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 in the Warwick Center on the UNCW campus. The event is free and open to the public and is part of UNCW’s semester long Brown v. Board of Education Learning Community program.
Brown-Trickey was one of nine African-American students to cross the Little Rock Central High picket lines to bring an end to segregation in the state of Arkansas in September 1957. This was one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement as the Little Rock Nine took their rightful place in what had been, until that moment, a whites-only institution.
Brown-Trickey is known for her articulate and uncompromising defense of social change and diversity and has been in the forefront of the continuing battle against racism and discrimination wherever it exists. Among other topics, she will discuss advances since that confrontation in Little Rock and how much still needs to be accomplished in the fight for freedom and equality in America. For more information visit www.uncw.edu/honors/minnijean.htm
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NOTE TO THE MEDIA: For more information contact Bo Dean at 910/962-4181 or deanb@uncw.edu.
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