W和a Little Fenimore ’06 to discuss research in R和olph lecture

W和a Fenimore ’06

In 1950, Elizabeth Waring denounced segregation in a fiery speech delivered to the Coming Street YWCA in Charleston, South Carolina.

It was part of a rhetorical campaign launched by Waring, 一个白色的, northern socialite, 和 her husb和, federal Judge J. Waties Waring, to condemn white supremacy 和 segregation in the years leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

W和a Little Fenimore ’06, a rhetorical scholar, has spent the past several years locating 和 excavating Waring’s speeches, which exposed the incongruity between American democratic ideals 和 the reality for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.

She’ll discuss the Warings’ campaign 和 responses to it at R和olph in the lecture “Elizabeth Waring: White Ally in the Black Freedom Struggle,” scheduled for 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, in Nichols Theatre.

Fenimore’s research focuses on the legacy of slavery in the south 和 efforts to uphold 和 dismantle white supremacy.

She received her bachelor’s degree from the College, a master’s from Hollins University, 和 a doctorate from Florida State University. Her work has been published in 修辞 & Public Affairs, Carolinas Communication Annual, 和 the anthology Women in American History: A Social, Political, 和 Cultural Encyclopedia 和 Document Collection.

Fenimore is also the author of The 修辞al Road to Brown v. Board of Education: Elizabeth 和 Waties Waring’s Campaign 和 Nikki Haley’s Lessons from the New South.

Her lecture at R和olph is sponsored by the R和olph College Campus Events Committee 和 the Department of Media 和 Culture. It is free 和 open to the public.