19th Annual Lecture Series on African History & Culture

Presented by Washington historian C.R. Gibbs and Associates. C.R. Gibbs lectures, writes and consults on subjects relating to the African Diaspora.

• The Genesis of Jena: Race, Rebellion & Redemption in the New South, C.R. Gibbs
  Tuesday, March 25 7 pm Oxon Hill Branch
• African Beginnings of Humanity & the Origins of Race, Carter Ward
  Tuesday, April 1 7 pm New Carrollton Branch
• A More Perfect Union?: Constitutional Franchise for Racial Quotas, Asa Gordon
  Tuesday, April 8 7 pm Oxon Hill Branch
• Warriors with Words: How Freedom Narratives & the Black Press Fought Slavery, C.R. Gibbs
  Tuesday, April 15 7 pm New Carrollton Branch
• Swing Low Sweet Harriet: General Tubman’s Raid on the Combahee River, Asa Gordon
  Tuesday, April 22 7 pm Spauldings Branch
• Black Inventors: From Africa to America, C.R.Gibbs
  Tuesday, April 29 7 pm Spauldings Branch
• Lesson for Iraq?: The American Occupation of Haiti 1915-1934, C.R. Gibbs
  Tuesday, May 6 7 pm Surratts-Clinton Branch