Featuring Hattie Whitehead, Co-Chair of the Linnentown Project, with guest Bobby Crook.

Whitehead is the author of Giving Voice to Linnentown: A Memoir. The Linnentown Project is a community-led initiative to celebrate the history of the historic Athens black neighborhood 'Linnentown' and to educate community stakeholders and decision makers about the legacy and violent impacts of urban renewal on black communities in Athens, GA. More information about the Linnentown Project can be found at www.redressforlinnentown.com/.

This event is free and open to the university community.

Registration is required, at www.eventbrite.com/e/giving-voice-to-linnentown-tickets-254786000787. 

Refreshments (from Barberito's) will follow, courtesy of the history department.

Masks are required at this event at the request of the off-campus partners.

A Black History Month special event.