Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women

“Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women’s Movement Across Generations.”

A public history program sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010, 6:30 to 8:30

LOCATION: Matheson Museum, Gainesville, Florida

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“Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women’s Movement Across Generations” will take place on Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Matheson Museum. Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the panel discussion will bring together local activists from the 1950s through the present to discuss the ongoing struggle for social justice, gender equality, and human rights. The panel will also serve as a springboard for the collection and preservation of historical materials on the history of women’s activism in Gainesville.

Moderated by Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, this event will include members from Gainesville Women for Equal Rights, an interracial organization of women whose active work for civil and human rights changed the course of history in Gainesville. It will also include Gainesville activists in the pivotal women’s liberation movement of the 1960s. Serving as one of the main centers of feminist activity nationwide, Gainesville feminists posed radical challenges to male authority, and ushered in a new era of social change and opportunity for women.

Welcome: The Mayor of the City of Gainesville, The Honorable Pegeen Hanrahan

Panelists: Vivian Filer, Kathie Sarachild, Jane Hiers, Rosa B. Williams, Sallie Ann Harrison and Corky Culver.

Co-sponsors include: the University of Florida Department of History, the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, George Smathers Libraries,  UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund), the Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association, the History Graduate Society, The Gainesville Women’s Commission, The Emily Dickinson Society, and the Civic Media Center.

For more information please call the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at 352-392-7168 or email portiz@ufl.edu