Trustbuilding Breakfast Series

416 East Depot Street,LaGrange GA 30241

30 April, 2022

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We are getting our Trustbuilding Breakfast Series going again. Georgette M. Norman of Montgomery, Alabama will be our first guest speaker. We are excited to host Historian, Thespian, Activist Georgette M. Norman as our breakfast series speaker Saturday, April 30, 2022. Ms. Norman came to us in 2018 and quickly became a crowd favorite by her vast knowledge and experiences. Ms. Norman was born in Montgomery, AL. In 1963, Norman enrolled in Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a history major and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. She joined the Teacher Corps and simultaneously received a Master of Education degree from Hampton Institute in 1970. Afterward, Norman was recruited by the Government of the Virgin Islands to teach in its public schools on the island of St. Croix. In 1973, she received a postgraduate certificate in Humanistic Education from the University of Miami, Florida. In 2001, Norman was named the first Director of Troy University Rosa Parks Museum. In 2018, as Project Historian for the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium, Norman played a pivotal role in identifying 20 meeting sites or worship centers throughout Alabama that were significant in the civil rights movement. In addition, she directed for Cloverdale Playhouse in Montgomery August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama work Fences, which examined race and class through the African American experience. The following year, in 2019, Norman collaborated with Priscilla Hancock Cooper on the lecture/demonstration, “Past, Present, and Future: Our Civil Rights Legacy and Community Revitalization,” and in 2021, she presented “Traveling While Black & Going Down South” at the Shakespeare Garden, Auburn University. The breakfast will be held at Warren Temple United Methodist Church, 416 E Depot Street, Lagrange, GA 30241. There is no charge to attend. Your registration helps us with a headcount for breakfast accommodations.