Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Douglas A. Blackmon delivered the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 19, 2010, at the Vanderbilt Law School. The title of his talk was, “A Persistent Past: Reckoning with Race and History in the Age of Obama.”
Blackmon, senior national correspondent and former Atlanta bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, 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. 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.
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