UGA News Releases

• Clayton named inaugural Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor at UGA – Emily Williams / September 6, 2011
• First African-American Terry student to speak at luncheon – Matt Weeks / August 16, 2011
• UGA Foot Soldier project documentary receives Telly Award – Emily Williams / July 5, 2011
• UGA undergraduate selected for 2011 Student Freedom Ride, sponsored by PBS's American Experience history series – Joëlle Walls / April 8, 2011
• UGA names Dillard as the first Mary Frances Early Professor of Teacher Education – Michael Childs / April 4, 2011
• U.S. Rep. John Lewis to deliver Mary Frances Early Lecture – Ben Benson / March 30, 2011
• UGA’s Grady College sponsors Hunter-Gault author event – Sherrie Whaley / March 7, 2011
• Dean Emeritus Stuart Feldman honored for diversity efforts – Sheila Roberson / March 4, 2011
• Georgia Museum of Art to host Traditions in celebration of Black History Month – Molly Hoffmeister / Feb. 17, 2011
• UGA Law to host re-enactment of legal case that desegregated UGA – Cindy Rice / Feb. 14, 2011
• UGA premiere of Donald L. Hollowell: Foot Soldier for Equal Justice rescheduled for Feb. 22 – Emily Williams / Feb. 11, 2011
• Eldridge and Thurmond to recount Athens desegregation in UGA Grady College program – Joe Dennis / Feb. 9, 2011
• Stage production confronts African American stereotypes – Don Reagin / Feb. 3, 2011
• NCBI@UGA to hold campus workshops to build an inclusive environment – Joe Dennis / Feb. 3, 2011
• African American Cultural Center hosts alumni reunion as part of UGA's 50-day commemoration of desegregation – Don Reagin / Jan. 25, 2011
• Freedom Breakfast and community reception rescheduled for Feb. 14 – Matt Weeks / Jan. 24, 2011
• UGA Grady College offers free film screening at Ciné – Sherrie Whaley / Jan. 13, 2011
• Freedom Breakfast and reception for Early canceled – Media Advisory / Jan. 12, 2011
• Update of UGA 50th anniversary events for Jan. 11 – Media Advisory / Jan. 10, 2011
• Update of UGA 50th anniversary events – Media Advisory / Jan. 10, 2011
• UGA anniversary-day reception location moved to Georgia Center – Media Advisory / Jan. 7, 2011
• UGA’s first African-American graduate to be honored during desegregation anniversary observance – Sara Freeland / Jan. 6, 2011
• Poet Sonia Sanchez to visit UGA as part of UGA desegregation observance – Juliett Dinkins / Jan. 6, 2011
• Panel discussions to focus on legal issues, historical significance of UGA’s desegregation – Sara Freeland / Jan. 5, 2011
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault to deliver 50th Anniversary Lecture at UGA – Matt Weeks / Jan. 5, 2011
• UGA premiere of Donald L. Hollowell: Foot Soldier for Equal Justice set for Jan. 10 – Emily Williams / Dec. 27, 2010
• Grady College sponsors campus-wide read of Hunter-Gault memoir – Diane Murray, Joe Dennis / Dec. 7, 2010
• UGA to mark 50th anniversary of desegregation in 2011 – Sharron Hannon / Nov. 8, 2010
• UGA’s Donald Hollowell documentary to air on public television on July 11 – Emily Williams / July 9, 2010
• UGA announces the endowment of the Donald L. Hollowell Professorship of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies – Wendy Jones / April 16, 2010
• Out-of-the-box educator to present Holmes-Hunter Lecture at UGA – Matt Weeks / Jan. 15, 2010
• UGA to host Andrew Young premiere of Civil Rights documentary – Ruta Abolins / March 13, 2009
• Chief Justice of Georgia Supreme Court to deliver University of Georgia’s Holmes-Hunter Lecture – Sara Freeland / Feb. 17, 2009
• UGA research explores little-known chapter in college desegregation – Sam Fahmy / Jan. 9, 2009
• History makers to converge in Athens for UGA's Grady College Gala – Sherrie R. Whaley / Nov. 14, 2008
• Michael Thurmond to deliver Holmes-Hunter Lecture at UGA – Sara Freeland / Nov. 16, 2007
• Portrait unveiling to kick off Diversity Days celebration at the University of Georgia – Sara Freeland / Sept. 5, 2007
• Early's spring 2007 graduate commencement address June 7, 2007
• UGA to award honorary Doctor of Laws degree to Vernon Jordan – Larry B. Dendy / April 27, 2007
• Shirley Franklin to deliver Holmes-Hunter Lecture at UGA – Larry B. Dendy / Feb. 23, 2007
• Erroll Davis and Mary Frances Early to speak at UGA Commencements May 12 – Larry B. Dendy / Feb. 16, 2007
• Hunter-Gault to receive DGK Distinguished Achievement in Broadcasting Award – Sherrie R. Whaley / Jan. 24, 2007
• Charlayne Hunter-Gault to deliver 11th annual Darl Snyder Lecture at UGA on February 28 – Kim Cretors / Feb. 21, 2003
• Civil rights lawyer and Judge Horace T. Ward to deliver Holmes-Hunter Lecture at UGA: Ward was attorney in the 1961 Holmes-Hunter UGA desegregation lawsuit – Kim Cretors / Jan. 13, 2003
• UGA to award honorary degree to civil rights lawyer Donald Hollowell – Larry B. Dendy / Oct. 24, 2002
• "Unsung Foot Soldiers" focus on civil rights partnership – Jean Cleveland / Dec. 19, 2001
• Horace Montgomery, faculty leader in UGA integration, dies in Athens – Larry B. Dendy / Jan. 4, 2001
• Documentary chronicles lawsuits that led to desegregation of the University of Georgia – Diane Pajak / Dec. 20, 2000
• UGA to name academic building in honor of Hunter and Holmes – Larry B. Dendy / Nov. 9, 2000
• Documentary chronicles efforts of first African-American to sue for admission to UGA – Denise H. Horton / Feb. 11, 2000