The Organization of American Historians has named Professor Yevette Richards to its Distinguished Lectureship Program. Richards will offer lectures on the topics of
- Better Mammies, Wives, and Mothers: Industrial Education for Black Women
- The Black Elite and Race Relations in the Postbellum South
- Pan-Africanism, Labor, and Civil Rights: The Activism of Maida Springer, George McCray, and A. Philip Randolph
- The Women’s Committee: International Labor, Gender, and the Cold War
- Gendered Experiences of Pan-African Travel: African Americans in Africa, 1950–1970s
April 30, 2013