Fisk University Professor Speaks for African American Heritage Society Event April 26 at Heritage Bank
The African American Heritage Society of Maury County continues the 2013-2014 lectures series. The last in the series with the theme “The Great Migration: Causes, Cultural Changes, and Effects” is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, April 26, in the Community Room at Heritage Bank, 217 S. James M. Campbell Blvd in Columbia.
The speaker, Linda Wynn, is assistant director for state program at the Tennessee Historical Commission and a member of Fisk University’s faculty where she teaches in the department of history and political science. She earned her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in history and a master’s in public administration from Tennessee State University. Appointed by Mayor Karl Dean and confirmed by the Metropolitan Council, she serves on the Metropolitan Historical Commission and is a member of its Markers Committee as well as its Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee.
In addition to co-editing “Freedom Facts and First: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience” with Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, she co-edited “Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee” with Dr. Bobby L. Lovett and was one of the major contributors to the “Tennessee Encyclopedia of Culture and History.” Her chapter “Toward a More Perfect Democracy: The Struggle of African Americans in Fayette to Fulfill the Unfulfilled Right of Franchise,” appeared in “The History of African Americans in Tennessee: Trials and Triumphs,” published by the University of Tennessee Press and edited by Dr. C. Van West.
Mrs. Wynn is the editor of Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. A contributor to the African American National Biography published by Oxford University Press, she prepared several biographies and served as a consultant for the “Encyclopedia of African American Business and Notable Black American Men, Book II,” edited by Dr. Jessie C. Smith. The author of the African American Almanac’s chapter on “Civil Rights,” she is also a contributor to Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Sarah L. Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly G. Bond and published by the University of Georgia Press. A book review contributor to the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, she has a pioneering chapter on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the meaning of his ethos for women across the globe entitled “Beyond Patriarchy: The Meaning of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Women of the World” in Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality edited by noted King scholar Lewis V. Baldwin and Paul Dekar.
She is one of four scholars for the Promise Land Community’s project Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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| John W. Boyd (1852-1932) was a lawyer, magistrate and state legislator for Tipton County, Tennessee during Reconstruction. |
The speaker, Linda Wynn, is assistant director for state program at the Tennessee Historical Commission and a member of Fisk University’s faculty where she teaches in the department of history and political science. She earned her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in history and a master’s in public administration from Tennessee State University. Appointed by Mayor Karl Dean and confirmed by the Metropolitan Council, she serves on the Metropolitan Historical Commission and is a member of its Markers Committee as well as its Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee.
In addition to co-editing “Freedom Facts and First: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience” with Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, she co-edited “Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee” with Dr. Bobby L. Lovett and was one of the major contributors to the “Tennessee Encyclopedia of Culture and History.” Her chapter “Toward a More Perfect Democracy: The Struggle of African Americans in Fayette to Fulfill the Unfulfilled Right of Franchise,” appeared in “The History of African Americans in Tennessee: Trials and Triumphs,” published by the University of Tennessee Press and edited by Dr. C. Van West.
Mrs. Wynn is the editor of Journey to Our Past: A Guide to African-American Markers in Tennessee. A contributor to the African American National Biography published by Oxford University Press, she prepared several biographies and served as a consultant for the “Encyclopedia of African American Business and Notable Black American Men, Book II,” edited by Dr. Jessie C. Smith. The author of the African American Almanac’s chapter on “Civil Rights,” she is also a contributor to Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Sarah L. Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly G. Bond and published by the University of Georgia Press. A book review contributor to the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, she has a pioneering chapter on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the meaning of his ethos for women across the globe entitled “Beyond Patriarchy: The Meaning of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the Women of the World” in Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality edited by noted King scholar Lewis V. Baldwin and Paul Dekar.
She is one of four scholars for the Promise Land Community’s project Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
- See more at: http://columbiadailyherald.com/lifestyles/features/fisk-university-professor-speaker-african-american-heritage-society-event-slated#sthash.QHgCq9wf.dpuf
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