Sybil Morial’s “Witness to Change” Traces Her Life Through Civil Rights Activism
NEW YORK (December 07, 2015) -- National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and his wife, CBS News journalist Michelle Miller, will host a book release event and reading of “Witness To Change,” the recently-released memoir of Morial’s mother, Sybil Haydel Morial.
The memoir traces the 82-year-old’s life from her childhood in Jim Crow-era New Orleans to the present day and the election of the first African-American President, Barack Obama.
The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14, at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Morial is the widow of Ernest “Dutch” Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans. He had recently become the first black graduate of Louisiana State University Law School when the two struck up a conversation at a friend’s book party in 1954 about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision banning segregated public schools, Brown v. Board of Education.
In 2014 she received an honorary degree from Xavier University, where she worked for 30 years as a dean and administrator.
To schedule an interview with Mrs. Morial, please contact Teresa Candori, 212-558-5362 or tcandori@nul.org. For more information about “Witness to Change,” CLICK HERE.
WHO:
Activist, educator and author Sybil Haydel Morial
National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial
CBS News Journalist Michelle Miller
WHAT:
Book release party and reading of “Witness to Change,” by Sybil Haydel Morial
WHEN:
6 pm to 8 pm, Monday, December 14, 2015
WHERE:
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
1133 Avenue of the Americas
CONTACT: Teresa Candori
(212) 558-5362
tcandori@nul.org
