Radcliffe: Black Power Lawyers: Unique and Unorthodox Methods

Date and Time

February 24, 2016
04:00PM - 04:00PM EST

Location

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Sheerr Room, Fay House 10 Garden Street Cambridge, MA

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

  • Joyce M. Bell, 2015-2016 Maury Green Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; associate professor and the Don E. Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Cost: Free

Contact Info: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

Notes:  Bell will speak about her new book, Black Power Lawyers: Unique and Unorthodox Methods. Utilizing archival sources, oral history interviews, legal analysis, and secondary sources, the book offers an organizational history of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and assesses the impact of the Black Power movement on the organization as well as the lawyers within it.

More: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-joyce-m-bell-fellow-present…