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Lecture: Dr. Hilary Green, The Hallowed Grounds Project

Hilary Green: Speaking the Truth: Through her Hallowed Grounds tour, Hilary Green brings attention to the University's historical racism.
101 LeConte Hall

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Hilary Green entitled, "The Hallowed Grounds Project: Slavery, Memory and Engagement at the University of Alabama."

Dr. Hilary N. Green is an Associate Professor of History and Co-Program Director of African American Studies in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the  University of Alabama. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, her M.A. in History from Tufts University in 2003 and her B.A. in History with minors in Africana Studies and Pre-Healing Arts in 1999.  She is the author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham University Press, 2016). In early 2015, she developed the Hallowed Grounds Tour and Project that explores the slavery, the experiences of enslaved laborers and memory at the University of Alabama. She is currently developing a book manuscript on how everyday African Americans remembered and commemorated the Civil War.

A Free and public event.

Sponsored by the Carl and Sally Gable Fund for Southern History.

Hilary Green
Gender and Race Studies
University of Alabama

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