Join the Shrewsbury Public Library as they welcome Kellie Carter Jackson

Kellie Carter Jackson's presentation will focus on black women's activism and leadership.  The talk is intended to explore the ways in which these women engaged in local, national, and international freedom struggles while simultaneously defining their identities as wives, mothers, leaders, citizens, and workers.  The talk will pay special attention to the diversity of black women’s experiences and to the dominant images of black women in America from Mumbet (the first enslaved black woman to sue for her freedom and win) to contemporary issues of race, sex, and class in the Age of Michelle Obama. We will discuss voter suppression, black women suffragists, and voting today. 

Registration is Required.  You will receive a Zoom invite the day before the event.  

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Kellie Carter Jackson is the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. Force and Freedom was a finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Prize Award for 2019.