LUNCH & LEARN
A Voice for Social Change: The Life of Activist Hallie Quinn Brown
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
12:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Enjoy lunch with us and hear Dr. Amy Hobbs Harris discuss Hallie Quinn Brown, an educator and elocutionist who pioneered the movement for African American women’s clubs. A graduate of Wilberforce University, she lectured widely on the cause of temperance, women's suffrage, and civil rights. She helped found the Colored Women’s League in Washington, D.C., which became the National Association of Colored Women and adopted the motto, “Lifting as We Climb.”
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$25 DWC members, $30 non-members, plus tax (includes lunch)
About Dr. Amy Hobbs Harris
Amy Hobbs Harris, Ph.D. is the former Dean of Humanities & now Interim Provost at Central State University. Hobbs Harris completed her doctorate degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a dissertation on the influence of the women's club movement on Progressive Era women writers and has published biographical entries for the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement and the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. She collaborated with the Central State archivist to produce the video series, "A Walk Through Local African American History," about the early Wilberforce community.
In addition, she has published academic essays on Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the elocutionist Hallie Quinn Brown. Her research interest in elocution was developed during a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Paul Laurence Dunbar and American Literary History.
Please invite your friends — all are welcome to attend this public event!