Black History Month Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Jolly

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Performance

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Adults, Teens
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Join us for an evening with Dr. Kenneth Jolly, Professor of History and Chairperson of the Black Studies Program at SVSU.  The title of his presentation is "Black Liberation and the Fight Against Police Brutality in the Interwar Years."  Through the interwar years (the period between World War I and World War II) national and local organizations and activists fought police brutality and racist state violence as part of the Black Freedom Movement.  This presentation examines this long history and the lessons it offers for today.

Kenneth Jolly is Professor of History and Chairperson of the Black Studies program at Saginaw Valley State University where he teaches courses in African American History, the Black Power and Civil Rights Movements, and U.S. History.

This event is free and open to the public.