, author of The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family, will give the annual Walter Murray Jr. Commons Lecture Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in the Rotunda of the Wyatt Center at 91ÌƲ®»¢’s of education and human development. Parking for the event will be available in Lot 77 on campus.A reception will follow the lecture.
Cashin is a 91ÌƲ®»¢ alumnus and sits on the university’s Board of Trust.
Video of her lecture will be posted online at following the event.
The lecture, sponsored by the first-year students and resident faculty of , commemorates Walter Murray Jr., the first African American member of the 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Board of Trust, and honors the contributions and lives of African Americans in the 91ÌƲ®»¢ University community.
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