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Roles Of Women In Civil Rights Movement

Posted on 22 January 2013

Roles Of Women In Civil Rights Movement


Speaker : Ms Myra Brown


Date : 17 January 2013 (Thursday)


Time : 9.00 am – 10.30 am


Venue : Newspapers & Periodicals Room, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak





The Lincoln Corner
of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, together with the US Embassy (Kuala Lumpur)
will be organizing a talk on Roles Of Women In Civil Rights Movement by
Myra Brown on the 17th January 2013, from 9.00 am to 12.30pm at the
Newspapers & Periodicals Room, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.






Myra Brown is a
Regional Librarian and also Information Resource Officer.She has been
working as Southern European Information Resource Officer in Rome,
Italy; Portugal; Spain; Malta; Macedonia; Greece ; Cyprus and in Accra.
In Ghana she has an experience working as the Coastal West African
Information Resource Officer.

Brown
also worked at New Mexico State University Library and at Texas Tech
University Libraries immediately before joining the State Department.



The talk will highlight on how women helped fight for racial justice in
the American civil rights movement and how the civil rights movement
affected the role of women in America. Ella Baker, Septima Clark,
Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm are among others are notable names
on a very long list of heroines who marched, sat, rode, died in the
struggle for equality during the Civil Rights Movement. Brown will
explore the lives of these women who became leaders and their
experiences.


Admission is free. For further information, kindly contact
Norlailawaty Ismail at 082-442000 ext: 330 or email
norlaii2@sarawak.gov.my .

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