Evansville Museum Historian in Residence to Present Public Talk
Thursday, March 20, 6 pm
In his talk Antilynching Art and Community Remembrance in Indiana Dr. Alex Lichtenstein will discuss the compelling history of the use of art and photography to protest against racial violence. His lecture will connect the history of antilynching campaigns to current efforts around the state to commemorate Indiana's lynch victims.
Alex Lichtenstein is a professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he chairs the Department of American Studies. His work centers on the intersection of labor history and the struggle for racial justice in societies shaped by white supremacy, particularly the U.S. South (1865-1954) and 20th-century South Africa. His first book, Twice the Work of Free Labor examined the role of convict leasing and chain gangs in the remaking of the American South in the half century after the Civil War. Subsequently, he has written extensively about race relations in the U.S. labor movement, interracial agrarian radicalism, early civil rights struggles, and the impact of anticommunism on the labor and civil rights movements, in both the U.S. and South Africa. He recently published two books: Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid, based on a photography exhibit he curated, and Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory, a collaboration with my brother, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein.
