The Lyceum lecture series presents

Help from the People Up North:
Civil Rights Activism from Vermont to Mississippi

Tuesday, February 25
7:00pm

Suggested donation $5 / students free

This talk will discuss a new and illuminating history of southern Black and northern white women’s overlooked participation in the modern Civil Rights Movement using one of the nation’s largest federal agencies: the U.S. Postal System. It will center on the history of the Box Project and its founder Virginia Naeve, a Vermont pacifist and artist who was committed to bridging black and white, north and south, through material support and “person to person” relationships one letter, one package at a time.  

Pamela Walker is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Vermont. She is currently working on a book on this subject titled Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Black and White Mothers Used the Box Project and the Postal System to Fight Hunger and Feed the Mississippi Freedom Movement.