Stand Against Racism
MLK Association and Stephens-Lee Alumni Association collaborate on a program celebrating pioneer WNC African American educators.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County will join with the Stephens-Lee Alumni Association in a program to Stand Against Racism, sponsored by the YWCA of Asheville.
“Celebrating the Legacy of African American Education Pioneers” will be held Friday, April 29, 2016, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at the Stephens-Lee Center at 30 George Washington Carver Avenue in Asheville’s historic East End.
The program will include a panel discussion addressing a range of topics from the region’s early African American Educators to Oralene Simmons’s arrival as the first black student at Mars Hill College in 1961. Panelists will also profile Isaac Dickson and Lucy Herring and will offer an historic overview of Stephens-Lee and the Feeder Schools that brought students to “The Castle on the Hill” throughout its history.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information contact Dr. Joseph Fox at [email protected].
