Professor Jeffrey Ogbar has edited a path-breaking new book, Black Movement: African-American Urban History Since the Great Migration, and will be presenting it this Monday in Washington, DC.  On Monday evening at 7pm, he will be in conversation about the book with Frederick Knight, Chair of the History Department at Howard University, at the renowned bookstore Politics & Prose.  More details on the event can be found here.

Black Movement includes essays by a wide range of scholars, including Jeff Ogbar, Melanie Newport, and Fiona Vernal from UConn, as well as Stefan M. Bradley, Scot Brown, Tatiana M. F. Cruz, Tom Adam Davies, LaShawn Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, Shannon King, Brian Purnell, J. T. Roane, Chanelle Rose, and Benjamin H. Saracco, It was published this month by the University of North Carolina Press.

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