Ida B. Wells-Barnett Fall Lecture "From Respectability to Respect: Black Women's Civic Culture and Consciousness in Jim Crow America"

• Event Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2006
• Time: 7:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

African American Studies and Research Program

Dr. Darlene Clark Hine Northwestern University

This presentation focuses on the political, social, economic, and health care activism of exceptional yet representative black women during the first half of the twentieth century. Dr. Hine explores the lives and community building work of women in different regions against the backdrop of lynching, the Great Depression, and the post-World War II era with specific attention devoted to Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Madame C.J. Walker, Fannie Peck of the Detroit Housewives League, and Maude Callen, nurse/midwife of Pineville, S.C. Collectively and individually, these women created two types of communities, communities of experience, and communities in space. Within these communities, they engaged in myriad activities that prefigured the mobilization of the massive black resistance of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Darlene Clark Hine is a leading historian of the African American experience who helped found the field of black women's history and has been one of its most prolific scholars. A past-president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and the winner of numerous honors and awards, she is the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern. Her numerous publications include The African-American Odyssey, Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas, Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950, The Harvard Guide to American History, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History, More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men¹s History and Masculinity, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, Speak Truth to Power: Black Professional Class in United States History, and "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Doors will open at 6:30PM and will close at 7:20PM or when seating is no longer available. Museum visitors are reminded that food and drinks are not allowed in the Museum. Backpacks and other large items brought to the Museum will have to be stored; there is limited locker storage space available for these items.