Prof. Williams Author Talk on Black Women & the Civil Rights Movement in NJ on Feb. 3

Hettie V. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of African American History, will discuss her book, "The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey," on Feb. 3 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The virual event is hosted by the Morris County Library.

Throughout her historical narrative spanning from the Great Migration to 1954, Williams centers her research around the critical role played by Black women in forging interracial, cross-class, and cross-gender alliances at the local and national level and their role in securing the passage of progressive civil right legislation in the Garden State.

The virtual event is free, but advanced registration is requrired.

Williams is a historian of 20th century American history, former director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass Boston, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Women's History. She is the recipient of the Eugene Simko Faculty Leadership Award, the PGIS Award in Social Justice, co-founder of the Monmouth University Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, founder of the Works in Progress Seminar series, and past president of the African American Intellectual History Society.