Smithsonian Official to Give Civil Rights Lecture

The public has been invited to hear guest speaker Beverly Morgan-Welch, the Associate Director for External Affairs of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Morgan-Welch is to speak as part of the Central Connecticut State University Civil Rights Lecture Series on February 14, 2019.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s website says that it,

is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19^th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

As Associate Director for External Affairs, Morgan-Welch, according to CCSU, “She is responsible for directing the museum’s global strategic vision for development, public affairs, education and public programming, visitor services and special events.”

Before her work at the Smithsonian, Morgan-Welch was the Executive Director of the Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket, since 1999, which said that she previously,

served in corporate philanthropy at Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company and Raytheon. As a development professional at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, she acquired an African American collection establishing the Amistad Center for Art and Culture housed at the art museum. She later served as the Executive Director of the Greater Hartford Arts Council.

The Lecture is to be held at 12:15pm in the Founders Hall room in CCSU Davidson Hall at 1615 Stanley Street.

The event is sponsored, in part, by the CCSU Civil Rights Project, the CCSU Office of Student Conduct and the CCSU Office of Institutional Advancement.