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The African American Studies Program will host the 10th anniversary of the Robert Smalls Lecture April 24. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Capstone Campus Room. This year's speaker will be Darlene Clark Hine, a leading historian of the African American experience who helped found the field of black women's history and is the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University.
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Hine also is a past-president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association, and is the recipient of numerous honors and award.
Hine's publications include The African-American Odyssey, Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas; Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950; The Harvard Guide to American History; Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History; More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas; A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men's History and Masculinity; A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America; Speak Truth to Power: Black Professional Class in United States History; and 'We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible:' A Reader in Black Women's History.
Hine has been awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
For more information about this year's Smalls Lecture, contact Carolyn Sutton, at 7-7248 or csutton@gm.sc.edu.
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