MEDIA CONTACT: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu
BOCA RATON, FL (October 19, 2006) – Florida Atlantic University’s department of history presents “The Nazis and Dixie: African-Americans and Fascism,” a lecture by Glenda Gilmore, professor of history at Yale University. The lecture will take place on Thursday, October 26 at 2 p.m. in the Live Oak Pavilion on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. The lecture is free and open to the public.
“The Nazis and Dixie” explores the black and white radicalism that laid the groundwork for the 1950s civil rights movement and explores how communist organizing in the U.S. South produced a southern popular front in the 1930s to fight dual enemies: southern racial oppression at home and European fascism abroad.
Gilmore teaches 20th century U.S. history, Southern history and African American history at Yale. Her new book, “Defying Dixie: Fighting for Civil Rights, 1919-1948,” will be published by W.W. Norton next year.
The lecture, presented by the department of history in FAU's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, is the second in the John O'Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series. The series was initiated as a tribute to the late John O'Sullivan, a former chair of FAU's history department who devoted his entire academic career to FAU. Inspired by O'Sullivan's dynamic teaching, several of his former students donated money to initiate a lecture series in his honor.
For further information about the lecture or the series, call 561-297-3840.
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