| Date:
Monday, September 26, 2005
Time: to be announced Place: Mary Burnett Talbert Hall, North Campus (University at Buffalo). For further information: call (716) 645 2082 and ask to speak to Dr. Lillian S. Williams
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The
Department of African American Studies is thrilled that upon the initiative
of two of its adjunct instructors, Dr. Peggy Brooks Bertram and Dr. Barbara
S. Nevergold (founders of the Uncrowned
Queens project), there will be a rededication of Mary Burnett
Talbert Hall this coming fall to mark the centennial of the founding of
the Niagara Movement.
The Department's association with the naming of Talbert Hall goes back to 1974 when the current department chair, Dr. Lilllian S. Williams, then as a graduate student, had successfully proposed to the Committee to Name Buildings on the Main Street and Amherst Campuses to name a building after Mary B. Talbert. Dr. Williams had indicated to the committee that the appropriateness of naming a building on campus after Mary B. Talbert stemmed not only from the fact that she was among the earliest African American women activists who supported the Niagara Movement, the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, but she was also a Buffalo resident. Click here for the rededication program (this is a PDF document). |
