{"id":40802286238,"date":"2024-12-18T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802286238"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:09:46","slug":"prof-williams-publishes-the-georgia-of-the-north-black-women-and-the-civil-rights-movement-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-williams-publishes-the-georgia-of-the-north-black-women-and-the-civil-rights-movement-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Williams Publishes \u2018The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized book-cover\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/the-georgia-of-the-north\/9781978819399\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Georgia of the North&quot; cover image\" class=\"wp-image-40802286267\" style=\"width:321px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-1320x1993.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/12\/The-Georgia-of-the-North-Cover.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, recently published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/the-georgia-of-the-north\/9781978819399\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The historical narrative focuses on Black women and civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Williams specifically centers the book around the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances at the local and national level and their role in securing the passage of progressive civil right legislation in the Garden State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. Williams is an invaluable member of the Department of History and Anthropology. Her tremendous scholarship reaches into underexplored corners of American history. \u2018The Georgia of the North,\u2019 and previous works like the co-edited volume \u2018A Seat at the Table,\u2019 give voice to the narratives of Black women academics and leaders. For Monmouth University students Dr. Williams\u2019 scholarly prowess transcends the written word, allowing her to reveal to our students a richer and more dynamic American history narrative,\u201d said Maryanne Rhett, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History and Anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams is a historian of 20th century American history, recipient of the Eugene Simko Faculty Leadership Award, the PGIS Award in Social Justice, co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/department-of-history-and-anthropology\/interdisciplinary-conference-on-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monmouth University Interdisciplinary Conference on Race<\/a>, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/department-of-history-and-anthropology\/wip-seminar-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Works in Progress Seminar series<\/a>, and past president of the African American Intellectual History Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, recently published \u201cThe Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey.\u201d The historical narrative focuses on Black women and civil rights movement in New Jersey from the Great Migration to 1954. Williams specifically centers the book around the critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,444,423],"tags":[4912],"person":[1001,1836],"audience":[],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802286238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-publishing","person-hwilliam","person-maryanne-rhett"],"squareimage":{"id":40802275371,"rendered":"<img width=\"865\" height=\"1024\" style=\"object-position: 52.795% 56.13%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Prof. Hettie Williams\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1-768x909.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1-127x150.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/>","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/Hettie-Williams-v4-copy-865x1024-1.jpg","width":865,"height":1024}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802286238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802286238"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802286238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802291948,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802286238\/revisions\/40802291948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802286238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802286238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802286238"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802286238"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802286238"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802286238"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802286238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}