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...
