The Black Abolitionist Archive and the African-American Studies Program will co-sponsor a Lunch & Learn book discussion on Friday, Oct. 19, at noon in the Student Union Presidents Dining Room.
The presentation will feature Anna-Lisa Cox of the Hutchins Center for African-American Research at Harvard University, discussing her book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality. The book tells the story of the hundreds of African American farming settlements that dotted the rural Midwest in the decades before the Civil War. Cox’s book has been praised by National Book Award-winner Ibram X. Kendi and has been featured on The Majority Report with Sam Seder.
A book signing will follow. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.