February Sisters Speak Out: 40 Years after the Occupation

Event date, time, and location

February 4, 2012

7:00–9:00PM

309 Auditorium, 317 Perkins Central Court

Event description

Oral historians Sherrie Tucker and Tami Albin will interview women who were inside and outside the occupied building on the KU campus on February 4, 1972. The February Sisters’ activism led to the establishment of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Hilltop Child Development Center, among other breakthroughs for women on campus. Reception follows in the Central Court.

Co-sponsors: Department of Women, Gender, and and Sexuality Studies