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Women's Equality Day
Hampton University director will speak at district
Posted August 18, 2009
By Jerry Rogers
Norfolk District Public Affairs
8/18/2009 - NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk District honors Women’s Equality Day and the anniversary of National Women’s Suffrage with a special observance here Wednesday, August 26, at 1:30 p.m., in the multipurpose room of the Waterfield Building.
Margaret Dismond Martin, campus director of Hampton University College of Virginia Beach, is the guest speaker.
Congress established August 26 as Women’s Equality Day in 1971, with its never-changing theme, “Celebrating Women’s Right to Vote. The date commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the constitution, which granted women the right to vote. The passage of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women, for women, that had its formal beginnings in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, where the world’s first women’s right convention was held.
Margaret Dismond Martin
Margaret Dismond Martin is a native of Hampton, Va., and a product of Hampton City public schools, though her early education took place at the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) Non-graded Laboratory School.
Martin entered Atlanta’s Spelman College in 1983, where she majored in English literature. While a student at Spelman, she was initiated into Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society and was a full-tuition scholarship recipient during her sophomore, junior and senior years. She graduated with honors in 1987.
In 1989, Martin earned her master’s degree in English literature at Norfolk’s Old Dominion University.
Martin began her professional career as an instructor in the Department of English, Hampton University. After a short stint at Spelman in 1991, Martin returned to Hampton University in 1992, where she began as an assistant professor. In 1998, Martin was promoted to the university’s administrative executive staff.
Updated: 25-Aug-2009