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SouthTalks: Gallery Walk with Jenny Labalme

Invitation: Photographer Jenny Labalme will discuss her photos from the environmental justice movement in North Carolina.

Thu
10
Oct

We Birthed a Movement

Jenny Labalme

 

Jenny Labalme, who was a student-photographer during the 1982 protests against a PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina, will discuss the exhibit We Birthed a Movement, which showcases a largely Black, rural, North Carolina community’s fight to block a toxic waste landfill that culminated in six weeks civil disobedience. Labalme has numerous photos in the exhibit and served on a history subcommittee that advised the University of North Carolina archivists and curators on assembling relevant materials for the exhibit.

Jenny Labalme spent almost two decades working first as a photojournalist and later as a journalist for publications in North Carolina, Alabama, Mexico City, and Indianapolis. Her protest photos have appeared in the Washington Post, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, and the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, as well as in numerous books, scholarly articles, and the documentary film Our Movement Starts Here, produced by the University of Mississippi’s Southern Documentary Project. 

SouthTalks is a series of events, including lectures, performances, film screenings and panel discussions, that explores the interdisciplinary nature of Southern Studies. This series is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

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