Author, Professor to Discuss History of Desegregation at Adelphi
Garden City, NY (01/26/2023) — Author and professor Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD, will discuss the history of school desegregation in a lecture at Adelphi University on Tuesday, February 22. The event will be held in Adelphi's Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom at 7 p.m.
The lecture will focus on his new book, "Before Busing: A History of Boston's Long Black Freedom Struggle," that tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston, break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city.
Miletsky is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University (SUNY) specializing in recent African-American history, civil rights, Black power, urban history, mixed race, biracial identity, and hip-hop studies. He is the author of numerous reviews, essays, book chapters and articles that have been featured in the Trotter Review, the Historical Journal of Massachusetts, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and the Journal of Urban History.
The event, part of Adelphi's John Hope Franklin Distinguished Lecture series, is sponsored by the University's Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies.
Learn more and register at adelphi.edu/john-hope-franklin-distinguished-lecture.
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Author and professor Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD, will discuss the history of school desegregation in a lecture at Adelphi University on Tuesday, February 22.
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