FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
CONTACT: Cristina Diaz
Media and Community Relations Manager
215.753.3684
Chestnut Hill College’s History Club and Phi Alpha Theta will commemorate Black History month by welcoming Lawrence Little, Ph.D., from Villanova University on Thursday, February 18, at 7 p.m. in the East Parlor.
Little’s lecture is titled “Enforcing Apartheid: Racial Terror and Lynching in America.” He will analyze the causes, justifications, and consequences of the racial violence and mass incarceration that informed Jim Crow systems of oppression from the 1840s to 1940s and African-American attempts to resist.
Little is currently an associate professor of African-American History at Villanova University, where he has taught since 1993. His teaching areas include African American History, American History, Racism and Race Relations, Civil Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy and World History. Little has published several journals and his book, Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916, examines African-American reaction to global events and issues at the turn of the century.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Loraine Coons, Ph.D., history and political science department chair, at 215.248.7184 or at lcoons@chc.edu.
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About Chestnut Hill College
Celebrating more than 90 years of tradition and risk, Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition that offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master’s and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master’s universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since 1924, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life’s challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.
