Hasan Kwame Jeffries will lecture on “Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Denison University’s Higley Hall Auditorium (100 Ridge Road). The event is free and open to the public.

Jeffries is a professor of history and a faculty member of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. He specializes in 20th century African American history and has an expertise in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. He is the author of the newly released “Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt” .

This lecture is co-sponsored by Denison’s Department of History as part of the Donald E. Sharp Lecture in American History Series and the Department of Political Science. For more information, contact 740-587-8559.

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CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville — Hasan Kwame Jeffries lecture “Bloody Lowndes and the Politics of Black Power” at 7:30 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 27, in Higley Auditorium (100 Ridge Road). The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact 740-587-8559, or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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