Matriarchs of Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement

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Categories: Guest Lecture; Education; History
The Civil Rights Movement spanned more than forty years. Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado will take you on an eye-opening tour to meet the women who worked tirelessly to achieve civil rights in Georgia.

About Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, Ph.D.

Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, is a historian, curator, playwright, and Assistant Professor of African Studies at Morehouse College. She is the author and curator of Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement 1944-1968, and has served as the civil rights historian and exhibition consultant with the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Presently, she is the historical consultant with Time magazine for the virtual reality exhibition, The March, featured at the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois in February 2020.