Crusades For Justice: Black Women’s Visions and Connections

Reverend Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes returns to the Worden Theater for an illuminating and engaging talk about the intersection of advocacy for women’s civil rights and advocacy for civil rights for African Americans in the period following the Civil War and into the early 20th century, paying special attention to the formation of associations and organizations.

Rev. Dr. Gilkes is a highly engaging speaker who has been a Black History Month favorite at the Worden Theater.

About the speaker: Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor Emerita of African-American Studies and Sociology at Colby College (Waterville, Maine). An ordained Baptist minister, she is an assistant pastor for special projects at the Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has served as visiting faculty at several seminaries and schools of divinity, most recently Chicago Theological Seminary. She holds degrees Northeastern University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), has pursued graduate theological studies at Boston University's School of Theology, and has received an honorary Doctor of Divinity (D. D.) from Ursinus College.

Sponsored by North Andover African American History Committee, this program is supported in part by a grant from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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