When the Stakes are Life or Death, Vincent G. Harding Day

Join us in person or online for our annual Vincent G. Harding Day at Iliff, where we celebrate the life and work of Vincent G. and Rosemarie Freeney Harding and their commitment to education, justice, and peace toward building a multiethnic, multiracial, multigenerational, and multi-faith democracy.

We invite you for an evening celebration, where we’ll kick things off with a reception at 5:30 pm. The program featuring music, awards, and the lecture will begin at 6:00 pm. The program is slated to end at 7 pm.

Dr. Genna Rae McNeil will be the featured lecturer for Harding Day. Dr. McNeil will be lecturing on “When the Stakes are Life or Death — Coalitions Challenging the Criminal (In)Justice System.”

More details will be announced soon!

Genna Rae McNeil is a scholar of African American and United States Constitutional History, and the history of U.S. Social Movements. She is Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is widely known for Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights, recognized as the definitive biography of Charles Houston, Thurgood Marshall’s forerunner and mentor. Groundwork, upon its publication, won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for Excellence in legal history.

Professor McNeil has served as Chairperson of the Department of History at Howard University, a visiting distinguished Belle Zeller Professor at Brooklyn College, and a visiting professor of History and Law at Howard University’s School of Law. She was a historian of record for two amicus curiae briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke by Howard University’s School of Law and jointly by the National Bar Association, National Medical Association, and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

Outside of the academy during the 1980s, Dr. McNeil worked as an archivist at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and held the position of national Ecumenical Officer and Deputy General Secretary for Cooperative Christianity of the multi-racial American Baptist Churches in the USA (then a denomination of more than 1.3 million). Read the full bio.

Dr. Vincent and Rosemarie Harding’s scholarly activities have not only enriched our academic landscape but also championed the cause for freedom and made significant contributions to the wider community. The “There is a River Freedom Endowment” supports teaching, research, and public programs that align with their legacy. Please donate today by selecting “There is a River Freedom Fund” from the Fund dropdown menu.

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