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James T. Campbell, PhD, will discuss voter registration and civil rights during Freedom Summer in 1964. 

Campbell is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in American, African American and South African history. He previously taught at Brown University, where he chaired the university’s pioneering Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, a multi-year public examination of the university’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. He is the author or editor of several books, including Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies; Mississippi Witness; and Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, which was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in history. 

Campbell has served as a historical consultant for numerous documentary films, public school curricula and museum exhibitions, including the “Power of Place” exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is completing a book on the history and memory of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.

The event is free. For more information, contact Michaela Reaves at reaves@CalLutheran.edu.