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DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS
JANUARY 31, 2003--Distinguished scholar John H. Bracey, Jr., will present the Black History Month keynote address next Thursday at 8 p.m. in the College Science Center’s West Lecture Hall. A reception will follow.
"DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk in the 21st Century" is the title of the talk to be presented by Bracey, who has been a member of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1972.
The speaker is a former director of the W.E.B. DuBois Archives at the University of Massachusetts and has been a consultant on several video productions profiling W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass and A. Philip Randolph.
Bracey is the author of numerous articles, book reviews, and scholarly papers and has lectured at campuses across the country on various aspects of the history of Black Americans. For his role in helping to establish Afro-American studies programs nationwide, he was awarded the Zora Neale Hurston-Paul Robeson award for outstanding artistic and scholarly achievement.
Bracey is in the process of completing, with Ernest Allen, a six-volume documentary history: Unite or Perish: Black Nationalist and Radical Thought 1954-1974 and is co-writing with August Meier, two monographs with the working titles"The NAACP: A Short History" and "A. Philip Randolph and the NAACP: A Study in Cooperation and Conflict."
Bracey is the co-editor, with Maurianne Adams, of the 1999 anthology Strangers and Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States and has co-edited, with Meier and the late Elliott Rudwick, a number of volumes on various aspects of the Afro-American experience, including Black Nationalism in America, eight volumes in the series Explorations in the Black Experience, and most recently a revised edition of Black Protest in the Sixties.
He is currently co-editor, with Meier and Sharon Harley, of the microfilm series Black Studies Research Sources, which includes the papers of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Bracey and Harley also co-edited Access to African-American Studies, a web research service.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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