The Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. announced this year’s preservation award recipients at its annual meeting on Saturday, March 15. Chris Williams, assistant director of the University of Mary Washington’s James Farmer Multicultural Center, received Special Recognition awards for establishing the city’s Civil Rights Trail. Read more. [...]
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If the album covers on the walls of Chris Williams’ office put a spin on his story, Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony will bring it full circle. A longtime songwriter and music journalist, Williams – assistant director of the University of Mary Washington’s James Farmer Multicultural Center (JFMC) – has been Read more…
If the album covers on the walls of Chris Williams’ office put a spin on his story, Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony will bring it full circle. A longtime songwriter and music journalist, Williams – assistant director of the University of Mary Washington’s James Farmer Multicultural Center (JFMC) – has been Read more…
James Farmer Multicultural Center Assistant Director Chris Williams earned a series of recent headlines for the July 16, 2024, unveiling of five on-campus markers that are part of the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail, "Freedom, A Work in Progress." Williams, along with the City of Fredericksburg's Victoria Matthews, spearheaded the project, Read more…
Five markers unveiled this week at the University of Mary Washington tell the story of a college campus – and the perseverance of its community members – following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. The signs represent a portion of the second part of the Fredericksburg Civil Read more…Read more about Christopher Williams.