Festivities kick off on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 at 6 p.m. when Dr. Daina Ramey Berry of The University of Texas at Austin speaks about the experiences of enslaved, young negro women. Her lecture, “For Sale, A Young Negro Woman: Auctions, Breeding and Enslaved Women in Early America,” will be given at the college’s Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room located at 3201 West Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. Dr. Berry is a leading scholar on gender and slavery. She has appeared on several syndicated radio and television shows including NBC’s, “Who Do you Think You Are?,” where she reconstructed the enslaved genealogy of director Spike Lee. The celebration continues on Tuesday, Feb. 21 when Dr. Brent M.S. Campney of The University of Texas-Pan American gives his talk “A Fight for the Rights of My People: William Bolden Townsend and the Struggle Against Lynching and Racial Violence.” He will talk at 6 p.m. at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room. In addition at the Rainbow Room, a display of posters commemorates milestones in the Civil Rights Movement. The month-long celebration was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information about the events contact Chris Davis at 956-872-2275 or at crdavis@southtexascollege.edu. 
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