Episode 13: Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr.
In January 1962, Owen Cardwell, Jr. and Lynda Woodruff desegregated E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr. is a pastor, a Civil Rights advocate, and the Rosel Schewel Distinguished Chair in Education and Director of the Center for Education and Leadership at the University of Lynchburg. In our conversation, Dr. Cardwell and I discuss his work and ministry, the impact and influence that Dr. Virgil Wood and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on his life, the desegregation of E.C. Glass High School, and Lynchburg in the 1960s.
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