College of Charleston’s Provost’s Critical Conversations will feature students from FYE 114, including the 1967 Legacy Scholars TEDx-Style Talk on November 11th and 16, 2021 at 10 a.m. EST

Dates: Thursday, November 11, 2021 and Thursday, November 16, 2021

Time: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. EST

Location: Alumni Center, School of Education (86 Wentworth Street) and Facebook Live

Event is open to the public in-person (mask wearing is required) and online.

Description

As part of the College of Charleston’s Provost’s Critical Conversations, each student in the First Year Experience seminar FYE 114 (including the 1967 Legacy Scholars) will share their research on an African American trailblazer, event, or organization that has made an impact at the College of Charleston and the world-at-large. 

Featured topics: Avery Normal Institute and the 1944 letter writing campaign to desegregate the College of Charleston, early black integrators, tributes to Linda Dingle Gadson (Class of 1971), Remus Harper (Class of 1972), Otto German (Class of 1973), Francis Sturcken, the history of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. House on the CofC campus, Dennis Muhammad (Class of 1992), Shannon Matthews Chandler (Class of 1995)