‘Social Justice Sisters’ featured in next Nebraska Lecture
John Sorensen stands next to the bust of Grace Abbott in the entryway of Grand Island's Edith Abbott Memorial Library.
The profound impacts of sisters Edith and Grace Abbott on education and social work in the early 1900s will take center stage in the next Nebraska Lecture. The talk, “Grace and Edith Abbott: Nebraska’s Social Justice Sisters,” is on March 28, 3:30 p.m., at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.