Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholars Fellow Talk | Segregated But Educated: A Legacy of Hope

Join us for a lunchtime talk with poet and author Latorial Faison, Ed.D., an assistant professor of English at Virginia State University and a Virginia Humanities HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Scholars Fellow. Her presentation will explore African American students’ perceptions of the segregated education experience in rural Virginia and consider how segregated Black schools served as meccas for inspiring, commissioning and curating African American liberation and achievement, as well as the social prowess necessary to navigate and survive a Jim Crow South. Faison’s research includes work in the Library of Virginia’s collections.

For more information, contact Anne McCrery at anne.mccrery@lva.virginia.gov or 804.692.3568.

Free and open to the public, this event is presented by the Library and Virginia Humanities. Registration is required. Limited free parking is available underneath the Library at 800 East Broad Street.