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Panel Discussion: Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond: A Community Remembers

  • Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art 453 Westhampton Way Richmond, VA, 23173 United States (map)
Brian Palmer (American, born 1964), Leonard L. Edloe, permanent collection display, Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 2018

Brian Palmer (American, born 1964), Leonard L. Edloe, permanent collection display, Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, 2018

Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond: A Community Remembers, a new exhibition organized by University of Richmond Museums, pairs oral histories with photographic portraits of 30 Richmond residents whose lives were altered by their experiences as children and youth during the civil rights movement.

Panelists will include:
     Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch
     Brian Palmer, photographer
     Ashley Kistler, curator
     Laura Browder, oral historian and UR American studies professor
     Elvatrice Belsches, public historian, author, and lecturer based in Richmond