Glenda Gilmore, History Department, Yale University

The U.S. South, the Nation, and the World, 1919-1949

“When Jim Crow Met Karl Marx”

Tuesday, April 17, 4pm, 206 Ingraham

“The Nazis and Dixie: African Americans and Fascism”

Wednesday, April 18, 4pm, 8417 Social Science

Public Seminar: “Guerrillas in the Good War”

Thursday, April 19, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

Readings available upon request

GLENDA E. GILMORE is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and currently the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Her new book Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights will appear in fall of 2007 from W. W. Norton & Company. Her book Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1986-1920 won Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize. She has appeared frequently on NPR and in PBS Documentaries. Gilmore has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Radcliffe at Harvard University.