DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN DARLENE CLARK HINE
TO SPEAK ON ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – Darlene Clark Hine, prominent writer, editor, and scholar on African American history, will speak on “Black Professionals and Race Consciousness: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890-1950” at 4 pm on Thursday, October 17, 2002 in the New York Room of Mary Woolley Hall at Mount Holyoke College.

Hine, this year's John Lax Memorial Lecturer for the MHC history department, is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians (2001-2002) and vice president of the Southern Historical Association (2002-2003). She has edited and written widely on African American history, 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 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.

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