Sheryll Cashin, 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 Vanderbilt University.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in the Rotunda of the Wyatt Center at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College 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 Vanderbilt alumnus and sits on the university’s Board of Trust.
Video of her lecture will be posted online at www.vanderbilt.edu/news following the event.
The lecture, sponsored by the first-year students and resident faculty of The Commons, commemorates Walter Murray Jr., the first African American member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, and honors the contributions and lives of African Americans in the Vanderbilt University community.
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