March 26 Lecture Will Discuss Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Memphis, Tennessee - Award-wining author and professor Dr. Danielle McGuire will deliver the Belle  McWilliams Lecture in American History at the University of Memphis. She will discuss “To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women and the Long Civil Rights Movement” Thursday, March 26, in the University Center Theatre. A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the lecture at 6 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

McGuire is an assistant professor of history at Wayne State University and the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to Black Power. The 2010 book received the Frederick Jackson Turner Book Award and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Department of History, the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, the Center for Research on Women, the African and African-American Studies program and the Benjamin L. Hooks Center for Social Change.

Parking is available in the adjacent Zach Curlin garage.