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Mississippi State University Professor Jason Morgan Ward to Speak Thursday, Oct. 12, at 5 PM

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The Summersell Center of the Study of the South and The University of Alabama Department of History will host Professor Jason Morgan Ward of Mississippi State University on Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 5 o’clock in room 30 ten Hoor Hall.

Ward is the author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century (2016) and Defending White Democracy: The Making of the Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 (2011).

Ward’s talk is entitled, “Lifting the Veil: A White Alabama Graduate Undercover in Jim Crow Mississippi.”

This event is sponsored by the Summersell Center for the Study of the South and The University of Alabama Department of History. The event is free and open to the public.