In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President Salovey and Professor Feimster discuss the “long” civil rights movement, the contributions of civil rights activist Pauli Murray, and how Yale students are using the university’s archival and museum collections in their classes.
King and the African American Freedom Movement
Jan. 20, noon-4 p.m.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
Highlights from the Beinecke Library’s collections related to King and to the African American freedom movement will be on public view in the courtyard-level reading room.
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense , from January 1776, and The American Crisis, from December 1776, are among seasonal selections on view in a temporary exhibit at...
Robert Reid-Pharr ’94 Ph.D., Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, meditated...
Robert Reid-Pharr ’89 M.A., ’91 M.A./M.Phil., ’94 Ph.D. discovered writer James Baldwin long before he set foot on Yale’s campus. “I read ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ as a 14-year-old,” Reid-Pharr says. “It was the first literature that spoke to me as a black person in a conservative, black, religious family.”
JOIN US for a poetry reading by Marilyn Nelson Thursday, October 24, 4:00 PM Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street Yale Collection of...
