Please join us to celebrate the release of Ground Crew: The Fight to End Segregation at Georgia State the latest book by Dr. Maurice C. Daniels, dean emeritus and professor emeritus at the UGA School of Social Work. He is also the co-founder and director of the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies. 

In 1956, the Georgia State College of Business (now Georgia State University) denied admission to nine black applicants. Three of those applicants―lead plaintiff Barbara Pace Hunt, Iris Mae Welch, and Myra Elliott Dinsmore―coordinated with the NAACP and local activists to win a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of Georgia and its Board of Regents. Ground Crew sheds light on the vital role of community-based activists, local attorneys, and the NAACP in this forgotten, but critical, piece of the struggle to end segregation. 

Copies of the book, published by the University of Georgia Press, will be available for sale.

This event is sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the University of Georgia Press. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.