Sullivan to deliver Forester Lecture
FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Huntington, Ind. "Dr. Patricia Sullivan, professor of history at the University of South Carolina, will present What's Integration? Brown v. Board of Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice, at the Huntington College Forester Lecture Series on Thursday, November 18. The program will be held in the Zurcher Auditorium of the Merillat Centre for the Arts at 7 p.m. Sullivan's visit is co-sponsored by the 2004-2005 Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program. The public is cordially invited to attend the free lecture. Sullivan's work focuses on race, politics and civil rights struggles in twentieth century America. Her publications include Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years (2003), the letters of a white southerner who played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement, and Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996). She is currently writing a history of the NAACP. Since 1995, Sullivan has co-directed an annual NEH Summer Institute at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement.
