The inaugural lecture of The African American Experience in Missouri series featuring Diane Mutti Burke, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, will be held at 7 p.m. on February 3 in Jesse Auditorium of Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia.
In her presentation, Contesting Slavery: Enslaved Missourians’ Enduring Struggle for Self-Determination, Mutti Burke will examine the lives of African Americans who were enslaved in mid-Missouri. Her talk is the first in an 18-month series planned for 2016 and 2017. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to start the evening at 6 p.m. with a light reception. A book signing for Mutti Burke’s 2010 release On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households (University of Georgia Press) will immediately follow the talk.
The lecture series, which is a collaboration between the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies and MU’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, will explore the history of African Americans in Missouri from pre-statehood to the present. MU history professor Keona K. Ervin and SHSMO executive director Gary Kremer, both Center for Missouri Studies fellows known for research on African American history, are working together to create the series, which will include about a dozen lectures by top scholars in the field.
For details on The African American Experience in Missouri lecture series, visit http://shs.umsystem.edu or http://diversity.missouri.edu.
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