Dr. Peter Wallenstein returns to talk about race and higher education.
Dr. Peter Wallenstein, editor of Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses, returns to Duncan library, this time to discuss his work with race and higher education. When did universities and colleges start admitting minority students, and why? How did higher education come to be desegregated, and what role did the civil rights movement play? Audience Q&A will follow this live discussion.
Did you miss our last conversation with Dr. Wallenstein? Find his discussion of Loving v. Virginia on the library YouTube page!
Peter Wallenstein is a professor of history at Virginia Tech. His work emphasizes the South in general, Virginia in particular, from Civil War to civil rights.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | Seniors | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion | Author Talks |
TAGS: | race | local history | inclusion | higher education | equity | diversity |
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