Douglas Blackmon, 2008 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II, will give a lecture Jan. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the third-floor Reading Room of the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. Open free to the public, the lecture is entitled “A Persistent Past: Reckoning With Racial History in the Era of Obama.” It will be followed by a light reception, and Blackmon will be available to sign copies of his book.
“Over the past 20 years, Blackmon, Atlanta bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, has written extensively about the American quandary of race, exploring the integration of schools during his childhood in a Mississippi Delta farm town, forgotten or lesser-known events and experiences of the civil rights movement, and, repeatedly, the dilemma of how a contemporary society should grapple with a troubled past,” said Jill Severn, head of access and outreach for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. “Many of his stories in the Journal have explored the interplay of wealth, corporate conduct and racial segregation.”
This program is presented by the Russell Library and co-sponsored by the UGA Libraries, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Civil Rights Digital Library, the department of history and the Institute for African American Studies.
