A Protracted Struggle: Raising Up Black Education in South Carolina (CLP)

Lecture by June Manning Thomas, who entered Furman in the fall of 1967 as one of Furman’s first three African American women students. Her new book, Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina, traces her experiences desegregating schools in Orangeburg and at Furman.  Dr. Thomas is the Mary Frances Berry Distinguished . . .Continue reading A Protracted Struggle: Raising Up Black Education in South Carolina (CLP)

The Sun Does Shine – CLP

An Evening with Anthony Ray Hinton Date:  Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Time:  7:00 – 8:30 pm Location:  McAlister Auditorium Reserve a Seat Anthony Ray Hinton  spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit. Wrongly convicted in the state of Alabama for two capital murders with erroneous evidence and inadequate representation, Hinton was eventually exonerated . . .Continue reading The Sun Does Shine – CLP

CLP & Corresponding Library Resources

Poet Sean Hill will read from his latest collection, Dangerous Goods, on Friday, November 9, from 4 – 5 p.m. in McEachern Lecture Hall. This CLP is sponsored by the English Department. Dangerous Goods and Hill’s first publication, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor: Poems, can be checked out from the Furman University Libraries.  

Genealogy Research Workshop: From “Traces of the Trade” to Traces of the Family

On November 1, Sharon Morgan, an expert on African American genealogy, will be working with librarians, staff, students, and university family members to share her knowledge of tracing African American family lineage. Sharon writes that “because so much about African American families was not recorded in public documents, offline resources may be the only way . . .Continue reading Genealogy Research Workshop: From “Traces of the Trade” to Traces of the Family

CLP: Desegregation of Greenville Public Library

CLP – Desegregation in Greenville: The Public Library Story Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand, historian and co-author of The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism will visit Furman University on October 3rd. Dr. Wiegand will speak about the integration of public libraries in the South during the civil . . .Continue reading CLP: Desegregation of Greenville Public Library

Southern Civil Rights and Library History

On June 24, the governing Council of American Library Association (ALA) passed a historic resolution that “apologizes to African Americans for wrongs committed against them in segregated public libraries” and commends those “who risked their lives to integrate public libraries for their bravery and courage in challenging segregation in public libraries and in forcing public libraries . . .Continue reading Southern Civil Rights and Library History

American Hookup

American Hookup – CLP WHEN:   Thursday, April 19, 2018, 7 – 8pm WHERE: Blackwell Field Lawn Area, Trone Student Center Watkins Room This event will be a lecture by Lisa Wade (PhD, Occidental College). Wade will discuss her recent book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus (Norton). American Hookup examines contemporary sexual . . .Continue reading American Hookup