Program to feature Rachel Devlin, author of book about end of school segregation

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Rachel Devlin will appear at 3 p.m. Sunday in a free Zoom presentation being put on by the Shawnee County Historical Society.
Rachel Devlin will appear at 3 p.m. Sunday in a free Zoom presentation being put on by the Shawnee County Historical Society.

A free Zoom program at 3 p.m. Sunday will feature Rachel Devlin, author of a book on the key role girls and women played to end school segregation in the U.S.

Devlin, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., wrote "A Girl Stands At The Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools." It was published in 2018.

To receive the Zoom link to watch Devlin's presentation, email the Shawnee County Historical Society at shawneecountyhistory@gmail.com.

Sunday's talk will be the second of several Sunday afternoon historical programs being put on this winter by the Shawnee County Historical Society.

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