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Troubled in Mind: The Education of a Historian
by
Leon F. Litwack
Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.
Antiquarian Hall
185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Leon F. Litwack is Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American
History at the University of California, Berkeley. His many publications
include North of Slavery: The Free Negro in the Antebellum North
(1961),
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979), and,
Trouble
in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). Litwack has
received many honors in recognition of his distinguished and path-breaking
scholarship, including the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book
Award (both for Been in the Storm So Long), the Francis Parkman
Prize, and
the American Book Award.
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Leon Litwack
Photo by Peg Skorpinski
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This lecture is open to the public free of charge.
Directions to Antiquarian Hall
Please consult the 2005 schedule
for a
complete list of this year's public lectures.
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