KU News Release

Civil rights historian to lecture on the continuity of struggle March 22

William Chafe

LAWRENCE — A major scholar of civil rights, women and political culture of the 20th century will give the 2009 Tuttle Lecture at the University of Kansas.

William H. Chafe, the Mary Alice Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, will speak on “From Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement: The Continuity of Struggle” at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at the Dole Institute of Politics.

Chafe’s 12 books include “The American Woman” (1972), “Women and Equality” (1977), “Civilities and Civil Rights” (1981), “Remembering Jim Crow” (2001), “Private Lives/Public Consequences” (2005) and the just-published “The Rise and Fall of the American Century” (2009).

Bill Tuttle

He helped establish the Duke Oral History Center, the Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations, the Duke-University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women and the Center for Documentary Studies. Chafe is also a former president of the Organization of American Historians.

Chafe will deliver the second Tuttle Lecture at KU, sponsored by the American Studies Program, Tuttle Lecture Fund, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Hall Center for the Humanities and the departments of political science, English and history.

The Tuttle Lecture brings to campus distinguished scholars of recent American culture, African-American culture and the civil rights movement, all areas in which Bill Tuttle pioneered. Tuttle, who retired from teaching in 2008, taught KU students for more than 40 years about American history, race relations and the social movements of the 1960s.

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