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Southern Sisters: Building Bridges of Understanding During the Civil Rights Movement

Sarah Bakhtiari, Neighbor

Join the Norcross Welcome Center with the opening night of its 2012 Lecture Series Presentation!

Local Norcross historian and doctoral candidate Edie Riehm has spent the last 10 years researching and publishing about the life and work of Dorothy Tilly and her group of southern churchwomen. Learn how these middle-aged, white-gloved southern ladies reached across the racial divide to forge lasting and positive change in southern society during the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement.

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