Kegley Lecture Series kicks off the Fall series with“We Face The Dawn,”
September sees the return of the Kegley Lecture series with Margaret Edds, author of a new book on former Roanoke resident Oliver Hill who led the legal team that brought an end to Jim Crow segregation, opening the Fall Kegley Lecture Series.
Edds’ retired Norfolk reporter/editorial writer, will speak Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church located at 2011 Brandon Ave. SW (near Patrick Henry High School).
Her book, We Face the Dawn, Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson and the Legal Team that Dismantled Jim Crow, gives an account of how Virginians Hill and Robinson initiated and argued one of the five cases that combined into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education!
Hill and Robinson’s influence went far beyond that ruling as they were part of a small brotherhood, headed by social-justice pioneer Thurgood Marshall and united largely through the Howard Law School who conceived and executed the NAACP’s assault on racial segregation in education, transportation, housing and voting.
Hill was born in Richmond but later lived in Roanoke in a house now designed an historic stop on Gilmer Ave. NW. Hill also briefly practiced law in Roanoke.
All are encouraged to attend this informative free lecture!
