{"id":40802291940,"date":"2026-01-01T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802291940"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:52:57","slug":"prof-williams-presents-author-talk-on-black-women-the-civil-rights-movement-in-nj-on-feb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-williams-presents-author-talk-on-black-women-the-civil-rights-movement-in-nj-on-feb-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Williams Author Talk on Black Women &amp; the Civil Rights Movement in NJ Feb. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, will discuss her book, \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 on Feb. 3 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The virual event is hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclib.info\/Events\/Adults\/2026-02-03-The-Georgia-of-the-North\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morris County Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout her historical narrative spanning from the Great Migration to 1954, Williams centers her research 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>The virtual event is free, <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN__0I7vSLBRzeXSmbt_NA6bA#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">but advanced registration is requrired<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s History. She is the 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">African American Intellectual History Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN__0I7vSLBRzeXSmbt_NA6bA#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" style=\"object-position: 68.485% 45.575%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/12\/hettie-v-williams-for-website-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Book cover for &quot;The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey&quot; by Hettie V. Williams\" class=\"wp-image-40802291943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/12\/hettie-v-williams-for-website-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/12\/hettie-v-williams-for-website-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/12\/hettie-v-williams-for-website-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/12\/hettie-v-williams-for-website.png 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, will discuss her book, \u201cThe Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey,\u201d on Feb. 3 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The virual event is hosted by the Morris County Library. Throughout her historical narrative spanning from the Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,176,423],"tags":[1195],"person":[1001],"audience":[11,8],"school":[95,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802291940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplished-alumni","category-diversity-and-inclusion","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-alumni","person-hwilliam","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-history-anthropology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"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\/40802291940","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802291940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802291940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802293001,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802291940\/revisions\/40802293001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802291940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802291940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802291940"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802291940"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802291940"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802291940"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802291940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}