Mondays at Beinecke: Early Donors to the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection with Melanie Chambliss

Event time: 
Monday, March 15, 2021 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
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Event description: 

Melanie Chambliss will discuss some of the early donations to the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection and the motivations behind these gifts.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3plscNA
Chambliss is an assistant professor of history at Columbia College Chicago. She is currently working on her manuscript “Saving the Race: Black Archives, Black Liberation, and the Remaking of Modernity.” She earned her PhD in African American Studies at Yale and was a Graduate Student Fellow at the Beinecke Library.

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