The Lost History of the Civil Rights Movement
Modupe Labode
Monday, 04 Feb 2008 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Modupe Labode is the Public Scholar of African American History and Museums at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Previously, she was chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, and she has taught in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Labode was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1988, the fourth student and first woman from ISU to receive the honor. She graduated from Iowa State in 1988 with a BS in history and received her Ph.D. from Oxford University. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Address and part of the Iowa State 150th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series.Cosponsored By:
- African American Studies Program
- Black Student Alliance
- Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
- Center for American Intercultural Studies
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Human Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Dean of Students
- Margaret Sloss Women's Center
- Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee
- Multicultural Student Affairs
- Office of the President
- Office of the Provost
- Religious Studies Program
- Student Union Board
- YWCA
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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