African American experience explored at Grand Valley

Darlene Clark Hine, a leading historian of the African American experience, will present “Black Women: Experiencing Slavery, Building Communities,” at Grand Valley State University. Her lecture, on Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m., Loosemore Auditorium in the DeVos Center, 401 W. Fulton, on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus, is free and open to the public.

Hine is currently the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and professor of history at Northwestern University in Evanston and the director of the Comparative Black History doctorate program at Michigan State University. Hine previously served as the John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University, was vice provost and interim director of Purdue University’s Africana Studies and Research Center, and coordinator of Black Studies at South Carolina State College.

In 1990, her book Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950, was named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Hine also received the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing. Hine has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.

Her lecture is presented as part of Remembering the Crossings, a series of events throughout the year to promote awareness of the bicentennial of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. For more information contact Steeve Buckridge, GVSU Department of History, at (616) 331-8550, or visit www.gvsu.edu/abolition .