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A Conversation + Book Signing with Trailblazer Wanda Lloyd
- Ages:
- All ages
- Cost:
- Free
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About This Program
The Gantt Center is proud to announce a special conversation and book signing with writer Wanda Lloyd. Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism is a riveting story of her journey as a young girl growing up in the 1950s and 60s in Savannah, Georgia, and her eventual rise to executive editor at the Montgomery Advertiser. Among other roles, she served as managing editor at South Carolina’s Greenville News, founded the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute on Vanderbilt University’s campus, and led the department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University.
Lloyd used her experience and hardships to blaze a new trail, making sure to highlight stories that reflected diverse perspectives. On Saturday, March 14, guests will delve deeper into her incredible story of perseverance and leadership in action. The afternoon will end with a signing of her newly released book, Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism, available for purchase in the Gantt Museum Store.
About the image: A greeting between Congressman John Lewis and Author Wanda Lloyd in 2011 (Photo: Advertiser file)
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About The Author
Wanda Smalls Lloyd parlayed her passion for storytelling when she transitioned from journalism to writing non-fiction. A newspaper editor for more than four decades, she now writes from her home in Savannah, Georgia, where she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and left for college and career. In 2013, her award-winning work as an editor at seven daily newspapers brought her full circle back to Savannah as a professor. Lloyd, co-editor of The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press, retired from daily journalism after serving more than eight years as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, the daily newspaper in Alabama’s capital city. She has also been an editor at The Washington Post, USA Today, the Miami Herald, the Atlanta Journal, the Greenville (SC) News and the Providence Evening Bulletin. She was the founding executive director of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Most recently Ms. Lloyd was associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. At home when she is not writing, Lloyd enjoys volunteering with service organizations, gardening and doting on her family. Spelman College, Lloyd’s alma mater, awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2016. She was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists' Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Additional Media
Wanda Lloyd's acceptance speech at the 2019 National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.
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