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October 11, 2002
Darlene
Clark Hine to Speak on Origins of Civil Rights Movement
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Historian
Darlene Clark Hine
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Darlene
Clark Hine, a prominent writer, editor, and scholar who focuses
on African American history, will deliver this year’s John
Lax Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 17, at 4 pm in Mary
Woolley Hall’s New York Room. Her talk is titled “Black
Professionals and Race Consciousness: Origins of the Civil Rights
Movement, 1890–1950.” Hine, John A. Hannah Professor
of History at Michigan State University, is past president of
the Organization of American Historians (2001–
2002) and current vice president of the Southern Historical Association.
She has edited and written widely, most recently coediting, with
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack, The Harvard Guide
to African American History (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Her works include
A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History
and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)
and Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People
in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).
Hine also coauthored with William C. Hine and Stanley Harrold
the textbook The African American Odyssey (New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 2000) and with Kathleen Thompson, A Shining
Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New
York: Broadway Books, 1998). Hine has appeared in, and served
as a consultant for, a number of PBS documentaries, including
Shattering the Silences: Minority Professors Break into the
Ivory Tower and Eyes on the Prize. In 1998 she was
awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
The John Lax Memorial
Lecture was endowed in 1982 by professors Peter Lax and the late
Anneli Lax of New York University, in memory of their son, John,
a historian who taught at MHC in the mid-1970s. After John Lax’s
premature death, his parents created a memorial in the form of
this annual lecture. The lecture is given by a historian of the
highest distinction to commemorate the work and spirit of John
Lax by making the latest advances in history accessible to the
public.
For further information
about Hine, visit http://www.msu.edu/~history/hine/.
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