February 2017


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History Museum Hosts ‘Civic Dialogs’ Exploring Local Civil Rights Movement


movement throughout the state and region such as those in Danville and Richmond.


“As an institution, the Hampton History Museum is a powerful tool in building community. Communities must deal with difficult issues. The best response to challenges is always the result of our community coming together to listen and learn. Using history to help us understand who we are creates a framework for problem- solving conversations,” says Cochran.


Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander


Hampton, VA - The Hampton History Museum launches a series of three


“Civic Dialogs” to solicit the


public’s input on the past, present and future of the local Civil Rights movement, beginning with “Hampton’s Civil Rights Movement in Historical Perspective” on Monday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. This program series is funded in part by a grant from Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.


Mediated by museum executive director Luci Cochran, this event will encourage members of the public to share their personal perceptions and experiences of the local Civil Rights movement. The goal is to find out what Civil Rights meant to local residents in the 1960s; to learn how the movement changed


over the decades; and to


determine what the public knows and remembers about it now, and how this knowledge and memory shapes and inspires people’s actions today. It also will put in perspective the local movement’s relation to the larger sit-in


Next in the series: The Influence of the Civil Rights


Movement in Hampton Roads Today - Monday, March 20, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Facilitator: Dr. Cassandra Newby


Alexander, Norfolk State


University. The topics to be covered in this second Civic Dialogue will range from voter registration and turn-out in the present, to ways segregation still exists today. The goal will be to ascertain how far the community has come over the decades, and what work still remains.


The Future of the Civil Rights


Movement - Monday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Facilitator: Professor Robert Watson, Hampton University Community input will help spell out how to sustain the movement through actions for positive social change, what strategies from the past can be adapted for the future, and what sort of education and outreach is needed to engage the next generation. The audience will be challenged to answer how the Civil Rights movement can be sustained.


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