Professor Cherisse Jones-Branch will present material from her current current research project, "Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps": Rural Black Women's Activism in Arkansas, 1913-1965.
Professor Jones-Branch's recent publications include Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014) and the co-edited volume Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens: University of Georgia Press, (2018).
Wilson Lecture Series, sponsored by the History Department