Every year since its inception in 1948, the Azalea Festival has drawn thousands of visitors to the Port City in early April to enjoy Wilmington’s natural beauty and amenities. As historian Margaret Mulrooney has chronicled in her book Race, Place, and Memory, the Azalea Festival reveals many assumptions about race and class as well as contested conceptions of history with which Wilmingtonians wrestle even today. Join Prof. Mulrooney, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Equity at James Madison University, and the Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History at 6:30 PM on October 27 as she shares her research on the history of the festival.
Date:
October 27, 2022 - 6:30pm
Location:
Special Collections, RL2042
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