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SUMMARY:Reaching Across the Racial Divide – A Presentation by Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby
DESCRIPTION:Watch Video of the Event\n\n\n\n\n\nLocations: Middletown Campus\, Carl and Emily Thompson Conference Center and Virtual \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presentation\n\n\n\n“The sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. \n\n\n\nAs daughters\, Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby have found a way to live Dr. King’s dream. \n\n\n\nThey will share their powerful story of discovering their family connection and embarking on a journey of reconciliation and reparation. Their talk draws on lessons from their 2021 book\, Cousins: Connected Through Slavery – A Black Woman and a White Woman Discover Their Past and Each Other (UMW 2023 Reading Program selection\, Social Justice).  \n\n\n\nBooks will be available for purchase at the event.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n\nDr. Betty Kilby Fisher Baldwin\n\n\n\n\nIntegrated Warren County High School in 1959 after her father sued the school board under Brown v. Board of Education.\n\n\n\nAuthor of Wit\, Will & Walls.\n\n\n\nMBA and Honorary Doctorate from Shenandoah University.\n\n\n\nShe and Phoebe have presented nationwide at universities\, schools\, churches\, and conferences.\n\n\n\n\nPhoebe Kilby\n\n\n\n\nBaltimore native; degrees in Botany (B.S.) and Environmental Management (M.E.M.) from Duke University.\n\n\n\nWorked as an urban and environmental planner.\n\n\n\nLater earned a degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.\n\n\n\nActive in the Coming to the Table movement\, where she researched her family’s connection to slavery—leading to her discovery of cousin Betty.\n\n\n\n\nBetty’s story and the desegregation of Warren County High School in 1959 are featured in the documentary Knocking Down Walls (2023)\, created by Spotswood High School students and Rockingham County Public Schools staff. The film tells the story of Virginia school integration through the voices of those who lived it. \n\n\n\nSponsored by:\n\n\n\n\nLaurel Ridge Community College\n\n\n\nShenandoah River District United Women in Faith and individual Units:\n\nLeesburg UMC\, Brucetown UMC\, Stephens City UMC\n\n\n\n\n\nBelle Grove Plantation\n\n\n\nNorthern Shenandoah Valley Coming to the Table\n\n\n\nShenandoah River District UMC\n\n\n\nVirginia Annual Conference United Women in Faith\n\n\n\nStrasburg United Methodist Church\n\n\n\nStrasburg UMC Methodist Men\n\n\n\nVA Annual Conference UMC Methodist Men\n\n\n\nVirginia Annual Conference UMC Cross Racial/Cross Cultural Resource Team\n\n\n\nWarren-Page NAACP\n\n\n\nShenandoah County NAACP\n\n\n\nRobin Lyttle\n\n\n\nAnonymous\n\n\n\nVA UMC Director of Belonging and Advocacy-Rev. Lan Davis Wilson\n\n\n\nStrasburg Museum at the Strasburg Visitor’s Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThe Kilby Family Endowed Scholarship Fund\n\n\n\nINVESTING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF TOMORROW COMMUNITIES OF TOMORROW – https://poisefoundation.org/the-kilby-family-endowed-scholarship-fund/
URL:https://laurelridge.edu/event/reaching-across-the-racial-divide-a-presentation-by-betty-kilby-baldwin-and-phoebe-kilby/
LOCATION:Laurel Ridge Community College Middletown Campus\, 173 Skirmisher Lane\, Middletown\, 22645
CATEGORIES:Alumni Events,Community Events,Foundation Events,Middletown Student Events,Student Events
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