SOHP Spring Symposium – Spring 2026
Thursday, April 23
Location: Love House (CSAS)
Time: 4:30–7:00 PM
Reception: 4:30-5:30 PM
Keynote Conversation: 5:30-6:30 PM
Dr. O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight in conversation with SOHP Director Dr. Renée Alexander Craft about her work and new book, “We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers’ Campaign.”
Dr. O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and serves as Program Coordinator for the African American Studies Minor at Winthrop University.
Her research interests include the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern African American experience, the Black Freedom Movement, and African American Women’s History, with a particular focus on using Oral History to explore the local activism of African American women. Dr. Dixon-McKnight’s first book, We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers’ Campaign, published in September 2025, has been awarded the South Carolina Historical Society’s George C. Rogers, Jr. Award, recognizing it as the best book on South Carolina history published last year.
Friday, April 24
Location: Love House
Time: 10 – 1 PM
Focus: Join us for student presentations from the Southern Oral History Program’s internship seminar, where students will share their oral history work with the Carolina Brown Lung Association. Through interviews and research, students have documented powerful stories of labor, health, and organizing—offering new perspectives on the ongoing impact of the textile industry in the South. These projects demonstrate how oral history can bring community voices to the forefront and deepen our understanding of history and its present-day relevance.
Please email Phillip MacDonald at ptmacdon@unc.edu to register for the Zoom link for the presentations.
- Presentations 1: 10:00–11:15 AM
- Light refreshments 11:15 -11:45 AM
- Presentations 2: 11:45–1:00 PM