By Gail Siegel, WSU Performing Arts PULLMAN, Wash. – A dramatization of the 1943 book “Black Boy,” Richard Wright’s searing autobiography spanning childhood innocence to adulthood in the Jim Crow South, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Jones Theatre at Washington State University. It is recommended for ages 12 and older.
By Emma Epperly, Undergraduate Education intern PULLMAN, Wash. – Personal experience of growing up in the Jim Crow South, the civil rights movement and integration will be presented by Jeff Guillory, director of Washington State University’s Office of Diversity Education, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Todd 130.
In the 1940s, during the build-up of atomic weapons development at Hanford, Pasco was the only one of the three Tri-Cities that allowed black residents.It1s a fact that shocks many modern-day residents of the region, but it’s not surprising to Professor Robert Bauman of WSU Tri-Cities.“Not only were blacks limited to living in Pasco, they […]