The Black History Month Lecture Series is a opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to learn from members of the Black community, and their allies, about areas of research and interest that center the Black and African communities of the United States. This learning opportunity was created to ensure Black voices have a platform to tell their stories through supplementary education efforts, and for their allies to come alongside them in efforts toward building a better world.
Our inaugural lecturer comes to us from McKendree University (Lebanon, Illinois), Mr. Renatto Carr.
Renatto V. Carr is a doctoral candidate at Southern Illinois University, concentrating his studies on United States history, with a special focus on African American resistance, racial capitalism, White Supremacy and Anti-Black violence, particularly the enslavement of people of African descent, lynchings, pogroms, law-enforcement suppression, and sexualized violence of African American women. Carr also serves as an adjunct criminal-justice instructor at McKendree University. He holds a master’s degree in criminal justice administration from Lindenwood University and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Renatto's 32-page article on James Person's lynching is currently under review by the Journal of African American History.
We encourage any and all members of the Knox College and Galesburg Communities to attend Mr. Carr's lecture, titled "Come As You Are, Hoods Not Required: The 1942 Lynching of James Edward Person in Vigo County, Indiana and Edgar County, Illinois".
Join Us:
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
4:00pm-5:30pm
The HOPE Center Reflective Hall
305 S Cherry St, Galesburg, IL 61401
