There are a few upcoming brown bag events and speakers.
“The Murder Trial of Laundress Virginia Christian: Race, Labor, and Violence as Resistance in Progressive Era Virginia”
LaShawn Harris, History Department
12:15 - 1:30 p.m., Oct. 9, MSU Museum Auditorium
Co-sponsored by MSU African American and African Studies, the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context and the MSU Women’s Resource Center
"Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and the African American Song Tradition - A Performance Presentation”
Michael Honey
Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington-Tacoma and author, “Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)”
12:15 - 1:30 p.m., Oct. 16, 446W MSU Library
Co-sponsored by MSU African-American and African Studies and the MSU Library Colloquia Series