Erik Gellman will discuss his new book Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights(University of North Carolina Press, 2016) on Tuesday, February 21 (4:30 PM) at the Tamiment Library. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the lecture. This event is sponsored by the Frederic Ewen Center.

Erik Gellman is an Associate Professor of History and the Associate Director of the St. Clair Drake Center for African and African American Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the co-author of The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America, and co-directed NEH and Terra Foundation programs on the Black Chicago Renaissance for school teachers. This year, thanks to an NEH Public Scholar fellowship, he’s writing his next book,Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay.

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