Parks-King Lecture: Danielle McGuire, “Finding the Truth Through History: What the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement Teach Us”

Dr. Danielle McGuire, an award-winning civil rights historian, public speaker, and author, will give Yale Divinity School’s annual Parks-King Lecture on Wednesday, February 26.
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The lecture is titled “Finding the Truth Through History: What the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement Teach Us.” The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Niebuhr Hall. The lecture will also be live-streamed: https://vimeo.com/event/4914172
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A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, Danielle McGuire is the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Knopf). She is the editor of Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement; wrote the forward for John Hersey’s Algiers Motel Incident; and has contributed chapters to many other books related to the Black Freedom Struggle. She is currently at work on a book about police violence in Detroit in 1967, to be published by Knopf.