Professor of history at the university of minnesota. She is currently just finishing up a faculty fellowship at Harvard Fellowship Harvard Universitys in history. She owned a joint ph. D. In history in African Americans studies at Yale University and specializes in 20th century African American and American History with an emphasis on immigration, war globalization and social movements and political resistance. She is the author of a number of books one of which is out available outside at encourage you to grab a copy while you can. The glory of their deeds, a global history of black soldiers and the great war era. That sage was working on that book as i recall as part of your work at the warren center, was a close to publication . So its almost done. Really sage, is a great friend of ours and were just so delighted to have you back here with us again. Thank you. Please join me in welcoming doctor welcoming dr. Matt how. And joining us tonight is a scholar who has a specialized focus o
Service. Good morning, reporter with National Public radio, it is such an honor to be here at the National Folk festival to be here with you and two distinguished authors, were going to spend next hour almost which is just not enough time, learning about two of the most unsung female heroines in the Civil Rights Movement and two oh and women whotw in many many was would not of been more different. One was establishment and one was grassroots one was upwardly mobile and incredibly welleducated and the other one was or came from a background filledom with such approbation describing it as the report seems almost to granted obviously persons are teasing together one was unlikely and made in life luminary and both of them change the course of history anyone o of them havent engiven their due and hopefully these two biographies that we are going to be discussing will change that to a dean of the Harvard Institute law professor and history professor at harvard university, an earlier h book i