
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 13, 1992                   TAG: 9203130355
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

TALK DEALS WITH RACISM IN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

A public lecture on "Woman Suffrage and White Supremacy: A Virginia Case Study" will be presented Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Donaldson Brown Center.

Suzanne Lebsock, a women's history professor at Rutgers University and a featured speaker for Women's History Month at Virginia Tech, will give the lecture.

She is the author of the award-winning book, "The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860."

Lebsock has written extensively about the history of Virginian women, and her talk will consider the sensitive issue of racism in the women's suffrage movement of the early 20th century.

For further information, please call Sally Harris at 231-6759.

by CNB