Up From Slavery & Down with Apartheid!: African Americans & Black South Africans against the Global Color Line

Robert Trent Vinson is Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the College of William and Mary. He will be speaking on the century-long transnational linkages between African Americans and black South Africans – in entertainment, sports, religion, and politics – as they collectively worked to dismantle the global color line and ultimately helped end the white supremacist apartheid system.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of History, the African Studies Program, the American Studies Spiegel Family Fund, and the Department of Political Science.