Civil rights activist to speak at Episcopal
DELAWARE COUNTY Civil rights activist to speak about her life at Episcopal Academy NEWTOWN SQUARE Civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is scheduled to speak at Episcopal Academy from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday in the school's Mainstage Theater.
NEWTOWN SQUARE Civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is scheduled to speak at Episcopal Academy from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday in the school's Mainstage Theater.
The event is free and open to the public, but space issues require an RSVP to www.episcopalacademy.org/about/civil-rights-leader-to-speak-at-ea/index.aspx. Episcopal is at 1785 Bishop White Dr., Newtown Square.
Mulholland, 73, is to speak about her life as an activist. She participated in the 1963 sit-in at a lunch counter in Jackson, Miss., and went on to work closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping to organize the March on Washington.
She also broke racial barriers when she became the first white person to attend Tougaloo, a historically black college in Mississippi.
- Inquirer staff