Afternoon Talk with Jeffrey Gonda
Afternoon Talk with Jeffrey Gonda
History | Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Monday, October 26, 2015 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Taliaferro Hall,
2110
Please join us for an afternoon conversation on "Home Front: Restrictive Covenants, Civil Rights, and the Postwar American City" with Dr. Jeffrey Gonda of Syracuse University.
Jeffrey D. Gonda is an Assistant Professor of American History at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. He received a joint Ph.D. in History and African American Studies from Yale University (2012). His first book, Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) is a grassroots legal and political history of the landmark 1948 civil rights case Shelley v. Kraemer that recaptures the efforts of civil rights activists who challenged housing segregation in the aftermath of World War II. His research on the Shelley family recently won the Supreme Court Historical Society’s Hughes-Gossett Award for 2014.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Wine and cheese will be served. In order to get an accurate count, RSVP to millercenter@umd.edu or 301-405-4299.
Copies of the paper are available on request.