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HUNTINGTON Ƶ Brent Leggs, the most outstanding figure in Black historic preservation, will present the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in the Shawkey Dining Room in the Memorial Student Center at Marshall University.
The program is sponsored by Drinko Academy and The Woodson Lyceum.
ƵWe are thrilled to have Mr. Leggs visit the Marshall Campus. His is a major voice in cultural preservation,Ƶ said Burnis Morris, director of The Woodson Lyceum, in a news release.
Additional remarks will be given during the presentation by Cicero Fain III, assistant provost and inclusive excellence & diversity, equity and inclusion fellow at Marshall, and Patricia Proctor, director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy.
Leggs is the executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, and senior vice president of the National Trust.
The Action Fund promotes the role of cultural preservation in telling the nationƵs full history, while also empowering activists, entrepreneurs, artists and civic leaders to advocate on behalf of African American historic places, according to the release.
A Harvard University Loeb Fellow and author of ƵPreserving African American Historic Places,Ƶ which is considered the Ƶseminal publication on preserving African American historic sitesƵ by the Smithsonian Institution, Leggs is a national leader in the U.S. preservation movement and the 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award.
The Woodson Lyceum at Marshall University was created in 2016. It takes its name from AristotleƵs first school, which was called a lyceum, but the name also is associated with justice and freedom for African Americans and the press.
Other 2024 Black History Month events can be found at
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