Sun, Oct 31
|YouTube and FaceBook Live
Power of Words Author Panel Dr. Doris Derby
The Power of Words Author Panel w/ Host Theresa Davis. The Power of Words Author Panel brings together authors each month.
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2021, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
YouTube and FaceBook Live
About the Event
This event is part of The Power of Words When Poetry Meets Freedom Song and Images Program. A Georgia Humanities Project exploring writing, culture, and literacy in the movements for Civil Rights.
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SouthArts, Fulton County Arts Council, and Georgia Council for the Arts. Funding provided in part by a grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and our many individual donors and partners.
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The Power of Words Author Panel brings together each month four authors who utilize words to express powerful narratives, connection, and musing from a diversity of lenses.
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GUEST
The Power of Words Author Panel brings together each month authors who utilize words to express powerful narratives, connection, and musing from a diversity of lenses. Hosted by Theresa Davis. Featuring Dr. Doris Derby
Dr. Doris Derby is an artist, activist and educator who worked in the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama alongside of Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Dorothy Height, Dr. Dorothy Cotton, Dr. Septima Clark, Senator Julian Bond, Congressman John Lewis, Mayor Andrew Young, Reverend Hosea Williams, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others. Dr. Derby was a working member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), as well as co-founder of the Free Southern Theater.
She was the founding director of the African-American Student Services and Programs at Georgia State University as well as an adjunct associate professor of cultural anthropology. Dr. Derby is a photographer, painter, dancer, author, and filmmaker.