Leslie Brown

An assistant professor of history at Williams College, Leslie Brown has served as a college administrator at Skidmore College and as co-coordinator of Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South, a collaborative research and curriculum project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South (2008), winner of the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award. She currently is working on a collaborative writing project about the black life in the segregated south, a monograph on African American women and migration, a coedited collection of interviews from the Behind the Veil project, and a compilation of writing and speeches by Shirley Chisholm.

Lecture topics:

• "The Sisters and Mothers are Called to the City": African American Women and an Even Greater Migration
• Plenty of Opposition Which is Growing Daily: Beginning the Long Civil Rights Movement
• African American Life in the Jim Crow South
• Making the Capital of the Black Middle Class
• Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom
• Comparing the First and Second Reconstructions

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