Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in the Vanderbilt Law School‘s Flynn Auditorium. The title of his talk is “A Persistent Past: Reckoning with Race and History in the Age of Obama.”
Blackmon, bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal in Atlanta, was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday). The book began with an article Blackmon wrote for the Journal revealing that U.S. Steel had relied on forced black laborers in Alabama coal mines in the early 20th Century.
WHO: Douglas A. Blackmon, Wall Street Journal Atlanta bureau chief and Pulitzer-Prize winner
WHAT: The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
WHEN: Jan. 19 at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt University Law School
Media contact: Jennifer Johnston (615) 322-NEWS
Jennifer.johnston@vanderbilt.edu