EVENT: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Present.

Speaker: Dr Belinda Robnett, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

In this lecture Dr Robnett will provide a social historical analysis of African-American women’s activism from the 1960s U.S. Civil Rights Movement to the present, focusing on their leadership in national black political organisations.

At the end of the lecture, Dr Robnett will provide insights into the future role of African-American women as forces of black political influence, and as essential agents of change.