African American Studies Program at the College of Charleston will host a lecture on black student activism during the Civil Rights movement. The free event will take place April 9, 2015 at 6 p.m. in the Nathan and Marlene Addlestone Library (125 Calhoun St.) room 227. It is open to the public.
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Jelani M. Favors, professor at Clayton University, will deliver the lecture focusing specifically on student activism at historically black colleges and universities. Favors recently completed a fellowship at Duke University, and he was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Carnegie Mellon HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Center at Duke University in 2008-2009.
The African American Studies Program previously hosted State University of New York: Albany professor Ibram Kendi to present a lecture entitled, “Black Students and Black Studies: A Founding History, 1966-1970.” These events tie in to the College Reads! 2015 selection The Freedom Summer: the Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson.
