The Black Mountain Library is hosting Daleah Goodwin, Ph.D. as our Black History Month speaker. Dr. Goodwin is a Professor of History at Warren Wilson College, where she teaches courses in United States History, African American History, and Women’s History and serves as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives. This free zoom program will be Tuesday, February 23 at 7p.m. (Link here.)
Dr. Goodwin will be discussing her forthcoming book Sisterly Affections: The Work of Miss Hallie Quinn Brown which examines the activities of the turn of the twentieth-century elocutionist, suffragist, educator, temperance crusader, activist, and a founding member of the Black Women’s Club movement. Hallie Quinn Brown was Dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina and Principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, serving under Booker T. Washington.
This historical presentation will reveal the ways in which Brown used the spoken and written word to bring Black women into educational, historical, and political conversations on their own terms. Use the link on the library calendar to join us for a meaningful discussion about a remarkable early 20th-century woman.