WST Lecture: Agents for Change in the Civil Rights Movement

Thursday, September 25, 4:00 p.m.
Clary Theatre, Student Success Center

Dr. Doris Derby's black and white photographs capture images of women from all walks of life as they engage in crucial activities in the Civil Rights Movement for racial equality and social change. Well-known women, lesser known women, and unknown women participated together in endeavors that had the goal of galvanizing participation in positive self-empowerment activities to end segregation in all walks of life. In exemplary fashion, these women, with men, bravely stood up to be counted in the face of danger, economic reprisals, and legal injustices. In doing so, they served as role models for their children and generations to follow.

Dr. Derby currently serves as Georgia State University's Director of the Office of African American Student Services and Programs, a post she has held since 1990. She is an also an accomplished documentary photographer and oil painter. Two of Dr. Derby's photographs are hanging in the High Museum of Art's 2008 exhibit "Road to Freedom," open at the museum through October 5^th.

The Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology is supported by the Office of the Provost, and brings together faculty and students, addressing issues of gender, science, and technology in research and programmatic initiatives at institutional, national, and global levels. The WST Center is interdisciplinary, cooperative in partnerships with students, and collaborative across Georgia Tech, and works in alliance with schools, universities, and other individuals and organizations, including Georgia Tech Alumnae.