The 30th annual Earlie E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture will stream online on Sunday, October 18, 2020, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at https://www.youtube.com/c/ASALHTV. The lecture is sponsored by the NCCU Department of History and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. This year's speaker is Dr. Marcus Nevius, who earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from NCCU's Department of History and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He currently serves as an assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Nevius is the author of "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (University of Georgia Press, 2020). His talk is titled "Reflections on the History of Black Resistance: Implications for Scholarship in the 21st Century."
This annual lecture is given in honor of Dr. Earlie Endris Thorpe, who chaired the Department of History at North Carolina Central University from 1962 to 1973 and taught at NCCU for 27 years, until his death in 1989. An outstanding teacher and scholar, Dr. Thorpe published several seminal works of history, notably "The Mind of the Negro: An Intellectual History of Afro-Americans" (1961), "Black Historians: A Critique" (1971), and "The Old South: A Psychohistory" (1972).