GREAT LIVES: Cooper & Du Bois were the social justice warriors of their time (The Free Lance-Star)
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Marsh Pens Editorial on Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. DuBois for ‘Great Lives’ Lecture
Professor of Sociology Kristin Marsh penned an editorial on authors and Black rights activists Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. DuBois in The Free Lance-Star in advance of her “Great Lives” lecture on Feb. 23. View the lecture here.AT THE TURN of the 20th century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was one of […]
Dynamic Decade: Women’s and Gender Studies Program Turns 10
Six years after graduating from the University of Mary Washington, Sam Carter ’14 still draws daily on some of the lessons she learned as an undergrad.“Everyone has a different cultural experience,” said Carter, a Women’s and Gender Studies major who’s now a digital director for the House Budget Committee majority staff. “It’s important that we […]
Marsh Speaks About Suffrage Movement on 19th Amendment Anniversary
Kristin Marsh, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, spoke at the League of Women Voters of the Fredericksburg Area meeting at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Monday in celebration of Women’s Equality Day. It honors the anniversary of the date when the 19th Amendment, which prohibits states and the federal […]
Fredericksburg’s League of Women Voters celebrates Women’s Equality Day (The Free Lance-Star)