Nell Irvin Painter, professor of American history at Princeton University, will speak tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Painter is the author of three books, including Sojourner Truth, a Life, a Symbol, the soon to be published full-length biography of the famous black abolitionist and women's right advocate. Painter and Darlene Clark Hine, the second speaker in the lecture series, are considered two of the top women's suffrage movement scholars, Horowitz said. These are some of the most informed and influential scholars of the suffrage movement. Horowitz said the 75th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment in conjunction with the Carrie Chapman Catt celebration last October sparked an interest in the role of African Americans in the suffrage movement.
People are interested.
People have questions. Horowitz said she is thrilled and honored that ISU can bring scholars of such prestige to the campus. Their credentials speak for themselves. My conversations with them have left me awe struck and inspired. Painter teaches history of the American South to graduate and undergraduate students at Princeton.