Police Powers, the Anti-Slavery Movement, and the Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment: Kate Masur
When:
Monday, March 12, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where: Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL 60201
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free; public welcome!
Contact:
Jill Mannor
(847) 467-3970
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Presenter: Kate Masur, Associate Professor, Department of History
Kate Masur’s talk will explore the history of racism in American law, with an emphasis on antislavery activists’ challenges to discriminatory state laws and the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment.
This talk is part of the Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series, where Northwestern faculty share and discuss their research with the public in casual evening lectures at the Evanston Public Library. Co-presented by the Evanston Public Library and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.