Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, will present her final author talk about her book, “The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey,” on April 2 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Alliance Heritage Center at Stockton University. The event is free, but guests are requested to register in advance for parking.
Questions about the event should be directed to Thomas Kinsella, Distinguished Professor of Literature at Stockton University, by email at thomas.kinsella@stockton.edu.
Williams is a historian of 20th century American history, former director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Women’s History. She is the recipient of the Eugene Simko Faculty Leadership Award, the PGIS Award in Social Justice, co-founder of the Monmouth University Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, founder of the Works in Progress Seminar series, and past president of the African American Intellectual History Society.