# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn: Eleanor Whitte
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 06 Oct, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: As part of the 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn Speaker Series, Thomas County native Eleanor Whitte will share her remarkable story as a pioneering African American engineer, inventor, and motivational speaker.

During her distinguished 35-year career with Xerox Corporation, Whitte was the only African American woman on her project team and rose to serve as a Project Lead System Engineer. She is also a named inventor on a United States patent granted in 1990 for technology that improved copier performance and image quality. Her accomplishments reflect a powerful legacy of perseverance, innovation, and leadership.

This program is free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch; light refreshments will be provided.

Part of a collaborative Bicentennial series presented by the Thomasville History Center, Jack Hadley Black History Museum, and Pebble Hill Plantation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/thomasville/2026-bicentennial-lunch-and-learn-eleanor-whitte/200030386961614
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 32

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Thomasville
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 725 N Dawson St, Thomasville, GA, United States, Georgia 31792
- **lat**: 30.84581
- **long**: -83.9847
- **full address**: 725 N Dawson St, Thomasville, GA, United States, Georgia 31792

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn: Eleanor Whitte being held?
  - **A:** 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn: Eleanor Whitte takes place on Tue, 06 Oct, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Tue, 06 Oct, 2026 at 12:00 pm at 725 N Dawson St, Thomasville, GA, United States, Georgia 31792.
- **Q**: Who is organizing 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn: Eleanor Whitte?
  - **A:** 2026 Bicentennial Lunch & Learn: Eleanor Whitte is organized by Thomasville History Center.

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