Please join your colleagues in the History department for this exciting local history project talk on April 22. See the official invitation below.
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 (CML) is pleased to announce an upcoming panel discussion
and reception surrounding their research for Black Lives Next Door, 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 award from the
university, the work is ongoing, and CML welcomes inquiries and partnership opportunities.
The April 22 event is hosted by the University
Libraries and sponsored by an award from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Intellectual Life of the College Committee.
