International Women's Day

Celebrate a one hundred year old tradition at the museum and be inspired by the stories of women from three centuries: Dr. Willa Player, Tabitha Holton, and Dolley Payne Madison. The event's featured speaker, Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown, is the Willa B. Player Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Bennett College. The program includes a box lunch. Advance tickets ($15) are required. You may mail a check to the museum.

• Tabitha Holton, First Woman to be admitted to the North Carolina Bar
• Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States

Tickets and Box Lunch $15. Advance payment required; call 373-2982 to charge by phone.

It was more than 100 years ago that International Women's Day came into existence, a recognition that is now celebrated annually around the world. The Greensboro Historical Museum celebrates with an International Women's Day program on Friday, March 8, 2013 at noon.

"Greensboro women have been, and still are, an important part of our nation's history," says Greensboro Historical Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart, "and International Women's Day on March 8 provides anopportunity to come to the museum for lunch, to join with others in the community, to be inspired by the stories of three women, from three centuries: Dr. Willa Player, born in 1909, the first woman president at Bennett College (1956 - 1966) and the first African American woman in the nation to head a four-year college; Tabitha Holton, born in 1854, who became the firstwoman to be admitted to the North Carolina Bar (1878); and Dolley Payne Madison, born in 1768, who became First Lady of the United States (1809 - 1817)."

Featured speaker will be Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown, Willa B. Player Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Bennett College, author of The Long Walk: The Story of the Presidency of Willa B. Player at Bennett College."Armed with the truth," Player once said, "it takes a long walk to reduce the shadow between the idea and the reality." Dr. Brown, a scholar, author, poet and well-known lecturer, attended Bennett during her aunt's presidency; The Long Walk offers an unforgettable profile of Dr. Player's contributions as a college president and community leader, andindeed, as a national leader in higher education.

After Dr. Brown's remarks, Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart will share thoughts about First Lady Dolley Madison from an anthropologist's perspective, and Community Historian Linda Evans will introduce the mostly unknown story of Tabitha Holton, who helped her brothers study for the bar and became determined to become an attorney herself.

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