Four LC faculty members will talk about varying aspects of women's history in honor of Women's History Month on March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge. The event is sponsored by the Gender Studies Minor and the Virginia History Research Center.
Dr. Dorothy Akubue-Brice and Dr. Bundy Potter of the history department will speak, along with Dr. Casey Clabough and Nina Salmon of the English department. Each speaker will talk for about 15 minutes. The event is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Dr. Akubue-Brice will talk about Madame C.J. Walker, a pioneering black businesswoman. Dr. Potter will talk about gendered spaces at LC. The College used a number of methods, some overt others less so, to "protect" its young women, at a time when coeducation was considered suspect. The geography of the inner campus still reflects these to some extent.
Dr. Clabough will read selections about Colonial Virginia frontier women from his book, The Warrior's Path. Nina Salmon will give a talk on Anne Spencer, a Harlem Renaissance poet who lived in Lynchburg.