Hettie V. Williams of Monmouth University presents "Black Women and the New Jersey Civil Rights Movement." This program is virtual. Register for Zoom link.
Black women played a crucial role in the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey. These leaders forged interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances locally and nationally, and were key to securing progressive civil rights legislation in New Jersey.
Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D. is an associate professor in African American History and president of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). She is the receipient of the Eugene Simko Faculty Leadership Award and the PGIS Award in Social Justice and is co-founder of the Monmouth University Race Conference, founder of the Works in Progress Seminar Series, and was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022. She has published book chapters, essays and encyclopedia entries and edited/authored five books. Her latest books include "Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History" (Praeger, 2017) and, with Dr. G. Reginald Daniel, professor of historical sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, "Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union" (Univesity Press of Mississippi 2014).
Presented in partnership with Not In Our Town Princeton.
