BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14913-e4f4483f25e3861c3f2d0578e21a7e5d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260709T085513Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T180000 SUMMARY:The Barbara Jordan Lecture Series: Erica Armstrong Dunbar DESCRIPTION:\nConcentrating on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, Erica Armstrong Dunbar became a historian of the African American exper ience by committing herself to telling the stories of Black women who li ved\, loved\, struggled\, worked\, prayed\, and fought to survive in a n ation that still recognized many of them as property. In her scholarship and public-facing work\, she focuses on the uncomfortable concepts of s lavery\, racial injustice\, and gender inequality.\n\nSince 2004\, the A fricana Research Center has sponsored the Barbara Jordan Lecture Series to recognize and introduce the Penn State community to the scholarship o f an African American civil rights activist\, scholar\, and/or public in tellectual. The ARC named the lecture after Congresswoman Barbara Jordan because she was a modern day “giant” in activism\, scholarship\, and ac tion before her untimely death in 1996.\n\nFor more details: https://eve nts.la.psu.edu/event/barbara-jordan-lecture-series/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Concentrating o n the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Erica Armstrong Dunbar became a historian of the African American experience by committing herself to telling the stories of Black women who lived, loved, struggled, worked, prayed, and fought to survive in a nation that still recognized many of them as property. In her scholarship and public-facing work, she focuse s on the uncomfortable concepts of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality.

Since 2004, the Africana Research Center has sponsore d the Barbara Jordan Lecture Series to recognize and introduce the Penn State community to the scholarship of an African American civil rights a ctivist, scholar, and/or public intellectual. The ARC named the lecture after Congresswoman Barbara Jordan because she was a modern day “giant” in activism, scholarship, and action before her untimely death in 1996.< /p>

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/barbara-jordan- lecture-series/

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