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A Great Migration: Black Society and the Shaping of Houston in the Early Twentieth Century
The opening of Rice University on the edge of Houston in the early twentieth century coincided with a much larger, foundational event in United States and African American history: the movement, over several generations, of millions of African Americans from the rural south to cities and towns across the nation. This great migration represented a revolution in Black society, and African American migrants arriving in established cities and aspiring industrial towns across the country transformed the shape and meaning of urban life at their destinations. Please join us to explore this essential view of Houston, and critically important way of understanding the early context of the university.
A Zoom Webinar - March 11, 2022 - 6:30 p.m. CST
Zoom ID: 991 8987 6529 • Passcode: 363769
Panelist:
Bernadette Pruitt, Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
Moderator:
Portia D. Hopkins, Council on Library & Information Resources/Digital Library Federation Postdoctoral Research and Associate in Data Curation for African American Studies, Rice University