It started as an assignment for Harper's Magazine in 1969. Willie Morris was the editor then, and he figured it would make a good story to have Albert Murray, an Alabama native residing in Harlem at the time, to head back South to Alabama on the magazine's dime and talk to people along the way.
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UGA celebrates Women’s History Month
February 26, 2021
Deborah Scott (Submitted photo)
This year’s Women’s History Month keynote address will be presented by Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia STAND-UP, a “think and act tank” that supports community economic development through advocacy for community benefits, project work agreements and other policies that increase equity and access to opportunity. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Scott is an accomplished advocate of universal voting rights, economic inclusion and progressive civic engagement as well as a master organizer, strategist and highly skilled trainer. In 2012, she was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change.