Clement Alexander Price

Clement Alexander Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University. He is author of Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1980) and numerous other scholarly works, and has received many awards for academic and community service, including New Jersey Professor of the Year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1999. He is a member of the scholarly advisory committee to the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, and served as agency lead for the National Endowment for the Humanities on President Obama's transition team.

Lecture topics:

• The Modern Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered
• Race, Memory, and the Civic Sphere in American Life
• Newark, New Jersey and the Contested Memory of American Urban Life
• Public History as Civic Duty
• The History of Black History

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