Thursday, February 20, 2020 4pm
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665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089
The Center for Law, History, and Culture along with the California African American Museum is pleased to announce the 18th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted On Equality for All”, to be delivered by Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy.
Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), winner of the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Forthcoming in 2020 is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Fought for Rights for All (Basic). Professor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), as well as many important articles and essay. Today, she is at work on a biography of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney.
Professor Jones is recognized as a public historian, frequently writing for broader audiences in outlets including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time. She is also known for her curatorship of museum exhibitions including “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. Clements Library, and collaborations with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the American Experience, the Southern Poverty Law Center, PBS, Netflix, and Arte (France).
She holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and a J.D. from the CUNY School of Law. Prior to the start of her academic career, she was a public interest litigator in New York City, recognized for her work a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York at Columbia University. Professor Jones currently serves as a President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.
The Lecture will be held at 4:00-5:30 pm on Thursday, February 20, at Town and Gown with a reception to follow. Faculty, students, and general public are welcome.
*Please RSVP to clhcserv@law.usc.edu or 213-821-1239.
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