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Barbara Jordan Lecture Series

Barbara Jordan Lecture Series

The Barbara Jordan Lecture Series: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Dunbar leans against a white brick wall, wearing a black sweater and glasses.

Concentrating on 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,