Diversity and Democracy in America

Speaker:

Manning Marable

27 Jan 2009

8:00 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Manning Marable is the author of Living Black History: How Reimaging the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future. He is a professor of public affairs, political science, and history at Columbia University, specializing in African American history. He was the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, which has become one of the nation's most prestigious centers of scholarship on the black American experience. Marable has written or edited two dozen books and scholarly anthologies, including The New Black Renaissance and The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life. He is currently at work on a comprehensive biography of Malcom X. The 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Keynote Speaker.

---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.