Texas A&M professor Dr. George C. Wright will be speaking Thursday at the University of North Texas/Dallas School of Law on the social and legal history that drove the massive migrations of African and African-American populations from colonial era to the present.
Dr. Wright, who earned his PhD in history from Duke University, will examine the ways American legal history – from lynching to voter registration – has shaped the nature and tenor of African-American culture as it exists today.
The former President of Prairie View A&M from 2003-2017 and former Provost at the University of Texas at Arlington from 1995-2003, Dr. Wright is the author of three books written from his unique perspective as a native Kentuckian: “A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In Pursuit of Equality, 1890-1980, Volume II; Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule and “Legal Lynchings,” and Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930.
The presentation, part of the school’s commemoration of Black History Month, will take place at the law school’s Founders’ Hall, beginning at 3pm.