Sara Evans, noted historian, to address Haywood County NAACP

Press release from Haywood County NAACP:

Sara Evans, who has authored several books on history and spends part of her time here, will speak to the Haywood County NAACP on April 23. She will focus on growing up in the south in relation to learning about race. Evans grew up in South Carolina and Texas and spent all her childhood summers at Lake Junaluska, where she “…learned to love these mountains.”

Evans’ accomplishments as a historian include numerous books that explore social issues and women’s history. A Regents Professor Emerita, Evans spent her career teaching women’s history at the University of Minnesota after completing her PhD at the University of North Carolina in 1976. Her research has focused on the history of feminism as a social movement, motivated by her own involvement in civil rights, anti-war, and women’s rights activism. Her most recent book, Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End (2003), explores the history of American feminism from the late sixties to the turn of the century.  Her overview of American women’s history, Born for Liberty (1989, 1997), has been translated into more than 10 languages.  She is co-author of Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (1989, with Barbara J. Nelson), won the Policy Studies Organization book award. She has also published numerous other books and articles.

The Evans address will be on April 23, 1:00 p.m., at Jones Temple A.M.E. Zion, 35 Thomas Park Drive (just off of Pigeon Street), Waynesville, North Carolina. Members of our community are welcome to join us!