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URL:https://www.gpb.org/events/community/2026/05/28/marked-screening-and-di
 scussion-georgia-writers-museum
LOCATION:109 S Jefferson Ave EATONTON\, GA 31024
SUMMARY:Marked! Screening and Discussion with Georgia Writers Museum
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:With more than 2\,000 roadside historical markers spread across
  our state\, we’re zooming in on twelve to explore the people\, places a
 nd moments that help to tell the larger Georgia story. As America celebrat
 es its 250th birthday\, Marked! looks at the unique\, complex and importan
 t role the 13th original colony played during America’s revolutionary pe
 riod.\n\nAccessibility: This film is presented with open captions. If you 
 have other specific accessibility needs\, please fill out this form or con
 tact Christian Stegall at cstegall@gpb.org. \n\nPanelists:\n\nBeverly Guy
 -Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource 
 Center (1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spel
 man College.  For many years she was a visiting professor at Emory Univer
 sity’s Institute for Women’s Studies where she taught graduate courses
  in Women’s Studies.  At the age of sixteen\, she entered Spelman Colle
 ge where she majored in English and minored in secondary education.  Afte
 r graduating with honors\, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year
  of study in English.  In 1968\, she entered Atlanta University to pursue
  a master’s degree in English\; her thesis was entitled\, “Faulkner’
 s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.”  A year later she began her 
 first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State Universit
 y in Montgomery\, Alabama.  In 1971 she returned to her alma mater Spelma
 n College and joined the English Department.  Beverly Guy-Sheftall has a 
 Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University.\n\nShe has published a nu
 mber of texts within African American and Women’s Studies which have bee
 n noted as seminal works by other scholars\, including the first anthology
  on Black women’s literature\, Sturdy Black Bridges:  Visions of Black 
 Women in Literature (Doubleday\, 1980)\, which she co-edited with Roseann 
 P. Bell and Bettye Parker Smith\; her dissertation\, Daughters of Sorrow: 
  Attitudes Toward Black Women\, 1880-1920 (Carlson\, 1991)\; Words of Fir
 e:  An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press\, 1995)\
 ; an anthology she co-edited with Rudolph Byrd entitled Traps:  African A
 merican Men on Gender and Sexuality (Indiana University Press\, 2001)\; a 
 book co-authored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole\, Gender Talk:  The Struggle 
 for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (Random House\, 200
 3)\; an anthology\, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings o
 f Audre Lorde\, co-edited with Rudolph P. Bryd and Johnnetta B. Cole (Oxfo
 rd University Press\, 2009)\; an anthology\, Still Brave: The Evolution of
  Black Women’s Studies (Feminist Press\, 2010)\, with Stanlie James and 
 Frances Smith Foster. Her most recent publication (SUNY Press\, 2010) is a
 n anthology co-edited with Johnnetta B. Cole\, Who Should Be First:  Femi
 nists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign. In 1983 she became foun
 ding co-editor of Sage:  A Scholarly Journal of Black Women which was dev
 oted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent. She is th
 e past president of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) and 
 was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).\
 n\nKelly Bradley is a third-generation educator whose love of history bega
 n in childhood through hours spent reading encyclopedias and exploring ant
 ique stores with her grandmother\, who was also a teacher. Those experienc
 es sparked her fascination with “real” stories and taught her that his
 tory lives not only in textbooks\, but also in everyday objects and shared
  stories. In college\, she chose to study the subjects she was most passio
 nate about teaching—art and history. While in graduate school\, she had 
 the opportunity to study Georgia History under the late Cliff Kuhn\, an ex
 perience that deepened her appreciation for the complexity of her home sta
 te's past. Before shifting into her second career as a teacher at age 41\,
  Bradley worked in tourism\, theater\, museum management\, and public prog
 ramming\, all of which continue to influence her hands-on\, storytelling-c
 entered approach to education. Since joining Fulton County Schools in 2022
 \, she has focused on making history tangible for students by adding artif
 acts to her classroom\, including a souvenir coin from the 1895 Cotton Sta
 tes and International Exposition and a brick from the Chattahoochee Brick 
 Company that bears a fingerprint (likely) left by a convict laborer. Outsi
 de the classroom\, she teaches art and design summer camps for Museum of D
 esign Atlanta. She also enjoys reading nonfiction books that center around
  history or neuroscience and still loves exploring the occasional antique 
 store.  
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