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| Start Date: | 6/19/2012 | Start Time: | 2:00 PM |
| End Date: | 6/19/2012 | End Time: | 4:00 PM |
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Event Description
The Blockson Collection in partnership with the Department of African American Studies presents Dr. Allen B. Ballard, professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Albany-SUNY and Professor Emeritus of political science at City College of New York, who will talk about his publication and memoir, Breaching Jericho's Wall: A Twentieth-Century African American Life (2011).
Ballard's publications include The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America (1973), One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People (1984), and two novels Where I'm Bound (2000) and Carried by Six (2009), winner of the "Honor Book Prize" in Afro-American Literature from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
The Blockson Collection will also honor the Montford Point Marines. On November 23, 2011, President Obama signed two bills into law, S. 1527 and H.R. 2447, authorizing the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Montford Point Marines as trailblazers, the first African
American Marines. The Montford Point Marine Association Inc., Philadelphia Chapter 's membership rolls include these trailblazers. They will be acknowledged and given Certificates of Appreciation for their patriotism and courage. |
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Open to:
AllStudentsFaculty/staffAlumni |
Temple sponsor organization:
Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection |
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