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African American Political Culture Workshop

April 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., 2120 Francis Scott Key Hall
(Light refreshments available at 6:15)


Mary Ellen Curtin, University of Essex

"Their Idol, Their Vision: Womanism and the Rise of Barbara Jordan"

Discussion will be based upon a pre-circulated paper. If you plan to attend the talk and would like a copy of the paper, please email Elsa Barkley Brown (barkleyb@umd.edu).

Mary Ellen Curtin, University of Essex, is the author of Black Prisoners and Their World: Alabama, 1865-1900 (2000) and "Strong People, Strong Leaders: African American Women and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle" (2007). Currently a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, Professor Curtin is writing a biography of the African American politician, Barbara Jordan.

The African American Political Culture Workshop is funded by the Center for Historical Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies at the University of Maryland.

Workshop Organizers: Elsa Barkley Brown, Dennis Doster, Jessica Johnson, and Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
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