# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights: The Legacy of W. Miller Barbour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join is for a program presented by Eric Schubert, a graduate of Millersville University of Pennsylvania with an M.A. in History (2026). Eric Schubert is a public historian from a research team with Abigail Sholes.

Dauphin County’s Human Rights Champion: W. Miller Barbour (1908-1957) became one of the first African American graduates of Elizabethtown College and the first African American college football player in Lancaster County. His upbringing and education in the Middletown, Hummelstown, Hershey, and Elizabethtown areas, including setting these firsts, helped shaped his incredible career in social work which was to come.
�After earning a master’s in social work from the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, Barbour led programs reducing gang violence and later worked with the National Urban League in Denver and Los Angeles, where he championed racial economic justice.

More at https://www.hersheyhistory.org/an-unsung-hero-of-civil-rights-the-legacy-of-william-miller-barbour

Registration is not required. Everyone is welcome.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hershey/an-unsung-hero-of-civil-rights-the-legacy-of-w-miller-barbour/200029848337425
- **Event Categories**: Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 18

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Hershey
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Hershey History Center
- **lat**: 40.29263282613
- **long**: -76.647891166166
- **full address**: Hershey History Center, 40 Northeast Dr, Hershey, PA 17033-2732, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights: The Legacy of W. Miller Barbour being held?
  - **A:** An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights: The Legacy of W. Miller Barbour takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Hershey History Center, 40 Northeast Dr, Hershey, PA 17033-2732, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights: The Legacy of W. Miller Barbour?
  - **A:** An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights: The Legacy of W. Miller Barbour is organized by Hershey History Center.
- **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Hershey History Center's events?
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