Hi everyone,

Please join your colleagues in the History department for this exciting local history project talk on April 22. See the official invitation below.

-Lea
From: Rosemarie Zagarri
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:16 AM
To: Carrie D Grabo <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Please circulate to all GMU History undergrads, grads, and faculty

Center for Mason Legacies to host research discussion + reception about the Black Lives Next Door project on April 22
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Credit: Photo captured by Steve Svabo for the Washington Post in 1966.
J. Charles Jones and other ACCESS marchers starting off the Beltway march. Jones founded the Action Coordinating Committee to End Segregation in the Suburbs (ACCESS).

The Center for Mason Legacies<https://legacies.gmu.edu/> (CML) is pleased to announce an upcoming panel discussion and reception surrounding their research for Black Lives Next Door<https://silverbox.gmu.edu/legacy/s/blnd/page/home>, to take place on Friday, April 22, 2022, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Fenwick Library, Room 2001. Panelists will discuss their work in exploring their work in uncovering the relationship between George Mason College in its early days with the surrounding Black community.

The panel discussion will feature George Oberle (director of the Center for Mason Legacies, history librarian, and assistant term professor), LaNitra Berger (senior director of Office of Fellowships and associate director of the African and African American Studies program), Anthony Guidone (doctoral student researcher), Eliza Buckner (undergraduate student researcher), and will be moderated by Rosemarie Zagarri (University Professor and professor of history). The keynote will be offered by Spencer Crew (Robinson Professor of History and Art History).

Black Lives Next Door is an interdisciplinary project and collaboration between faculty and students to explore the environs surrounding the early years of George Mason College and its transition to a university. Initially supported by a Summer Team Impact Grant<https://legacies.gmu.edu/articles/15443> award from the university, the work is ongoing, and CML welcomes inquiries<https://legacies.gmu.edu/contact-us> and partnership opportunities.

The April 22 event is hosted by the University Libraries<https://library.gmu.edu/> and sponsored by an award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences<https://chss.gmu.edu/>' Intellectual Life of the College Committee.




Rosemarie Zagarri
University Professor and Professor of History
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
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