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Monthly Meeting
Sun, Jul 19
|Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
Discover the life and legacy of W. Miller Barbour, a Lancaster County pioneer whose work in human rights and social justice helped shape the early Civil Rights Movement.
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 1100 E Orange St, Lancaster, PA 17602, USA
About the event
Join historian Eric Schubert for a fascinating presentation on W. Miller Barbour (1908–1957), a Lancaster County leader whose work in social work, civil rights, and community activism helped lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. A graduate of Elizabethtown College and one of the first African American college football players in Lancaster County, Barbour went on to earn an advanced degree in social work and became a leader in efforts to combat gang violence and promote racial and economic justice through his work with the National Urban League in Denver and Los Angeles.
Although Barbour died in 1957 before the passage of major civil rights legislation, his work anticipated many of the reforms and social changes that would define the movement in the decades that followed. This program sheds light on the life of a remarkable but often overlooked local leader whose impact reached far beyond Lancaster County.
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