This event will be held in person & via zoom.
In this lecture, Dr. Yohuru Williams will explore the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis and the Congressman’s final gift to the American people, the Lewis Doctrine, which he saw as the blueprint to “redeeming the soul of America.”
About Dr. Yohuru Williams
Dr. Yohuru Williams is a Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998.
Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006), Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (Routledge, 2015), and Teaching beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of The Black Panthers: Portraits of an Unfinished Revolution (Nation Books, 2016), In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color Line Revisited (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching.
Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs most notably ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera America, BET, CSPAN, Fox Business News, Huff Post Live, and NPR and was featured in the Ken Burns PBS Documentary Jackie Robinson (2016), the Stanley Nelson PBS Documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015), and the Judd Ehrlich film The Price of Freedom (2021). He was also one of the hosts of the History Channel’s Web Series, Sound Smart and was a featured commentator on History’s popular series, “The Titans that Built America” (2021) and “The Food That Built America” (2019).
Dr. Williams's scholarly articles have appeared in the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and the Black History Bulletin. Dr. Williams is also presently finishing a new book entitled In the Shadow of the Whipping Post: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice in Delaware 1865-1965 under contract with Cambridge University Press.