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Historian and Author Jacqueline Jones, Ph.D., to Speak at Adelphi on African American Struggle
Garden City, NY
February 07 2008
Jacqueline Jones, Ph.D., the eminent author and historian, will present "Freedom Struggles: Now and Then," the John Hope Franklin Distinguished Lecture, at Adelphi University. The lecture will be delivered on Monday, February 18, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., in Adelphi’s Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. The event, sponsored by the University’s Center for African American and Ethnic Studies, is free and open to the public.
Dr. Jones will explore how disenfranchised African American people achieve the rights and privileges that are due to them, and will explain what the historic African American freedom struggles teaches about combating inequality and injustice today.
Dr. Jones is Harry S. Truman professor of American history at Brandeis University, where she teaches courses in American social history. She served as the chair of the Brandeis History Department from 1996 to 2002. She received a B.A. in American studies from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She is the author of several books, including A Social History of the Laboring Classes from Colonial Times to the Present; American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor; and Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present. The latter was named Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Bancroft Prize winner.
The Center for African American and Ethnic Studies offers a minor that emphasizes studying women and men of African descent. The annual distinguished lecture is named after the great scholar of African American culture and history, John Hope Franklin, who himself delivered the lecture in 1996.
For more information about this and other events, please visit www.adelphi.edu, or call the University’s Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555
About Adelphi University: Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for the liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, and the Schools of Business, Nursing, and Social Work—the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls more than 8,300 students from 40 states and 50 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active citizenship.
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