Author, lecturer and historian Richard Long, the Atticus Haygood professor emeritus of interdisciplinary studies at Emory University, will give the annual Daphne Harrison lecture on "Haiti and African Americans: A Historical View." This presentation will provide an account of the Haitian contacts and connections of several distinguished Harlem Renaissance figures, most of whom are included in Alain Locke's The New Negro, the principal compendium of the movement. Among these figures are Locke himself, W E B Du Bois,Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
4:00 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
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