2016 22nd Annual Du Bois Lecture with Aldon Morris

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Keynote speaker Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. His recently released The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology details the role played by Robert E. Park, the white University of Chicago scholar, and Booker T. Washington, in marginalizing the work that Du Bois produced at Atlanta University, a historically black institution. The lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served, copies of The Scholar Denied will be for sale and signing. The event is co-sponsored by the Randolph and Cecile Bromery Endowment for the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the UMass Amherst Libraries and the Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success (CMASS).