Author and historian Waldo E. Martin will present “Ready for the Revolution? History and the Black Panther Party” on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room of the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield College.
The talk is part of a traveling exhibition, “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963,” which will run Feb. 10 through March 25 at Linfield.
Earlier that day, he will also host a lunchtime discussion, “Pizza and Politics — Women in the Black Panther Party,” at 11:45 a.m. in 201 Riley Hall.
Martin is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of American history and citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly and teaching interests include modern American history and culture with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries; his principal areas of research and writing are African American cultural and intellectual history. Martin has published numerous articles and lectured widely on a variety of topics in modern African-American history and culture. He is the author of a number of books including “Black Against Empire: The history and politics of the Black Panther Party.” His current book project is “A Change is Gonna Come,” a cultural analysis of the modern African-American freedom struggle.
The traveling exhibition is presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The exhibit and lecture are free and open to the public. They are sponsored by the Linfield Department of Political Science, The Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice, the Elliot Alexander Fund for Political Science, the Dean’s Speaker Fund and the Linfield Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, college librarian, at swhyte@linfield.edu or 503-883-2517.
