Joyce Hughes ’61 featured in new documentary from Northwestern University
Hughes studied Spanish at Carleton.
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Joyce Hughes ’61 is featured in a new documentary from Northwestern University titled, Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern. The film “documents the trials and triumphs of Black women faculty spanning generations,” beginning with Hughes, a professor at Pritzker School of Law for more than 40 years and the first Black woman to earn tenure at Northwestern in 1979. The documentary was covered by the Evanston Round Table in a piece titled, “NU’s Black women faculty focus of new documentary.”