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Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women’s Movement Across Generations - SPOHP

2010

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Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Activists Among Us (Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Matheson Museum) will bring together local activists from the 1950s through the present to discuss the ongoing struggle for social justice, gender equality, and human rights. Moderated by Dr. Tricia Hilliard, this event will include members from Gainesville Women for Equal Rights, and interracial organization of women whose active work for civil and human rights changed the course of history in Gainesville. It will also include activists in the pivotal women’s liberation movement of the 1960s.