SALISBURY, MD—Dr. Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, continues Salisbury University’s African American History Month series Thursday, February 21.
Her presentation, “Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America,” is 7 p.m. in Perdue Hall’s Bennett Family Auditorium.
Jones speaks on how African Americans claimed, pursued and won legal rights before the Civil War, personified by an African American man from Baltimore who joined the U.S. Navy and sailed from Maryland to Brazil to San Francisco in the 1850s.
Sponsored by SU’s Fulton Public Humanities Program, History Department, Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, and the Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts, admission is free and the public is invited.
For more information call 410-548-3836 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.
