Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Northeastern University, will present “The Troubled History of Race and Public Education in Massachusetts” at the Newton Free Library’s Druker Autotorium (330 Homer Street, Newton) on Wednesday, February 25 from 7-8PM.
Baumgartner will explore how Black women activists fought for educational justice in our region, based on her book In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America.
Registration is optional but encouraged for these free in-person lectures.
