Join the NCCU Department of History on Sunday, October 22, 2023, for the 2023 Earlie E. Thorpe Lecture at Horton Grove (5925 Jock Rd. Durham, NC). Double Eagle, Dr. Glen Anthony Harris, will lecture on the career of the esteemed photojournalist Alexander Rivera. The 2023 program will be the 35rd annual Earlie E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture, dedicated to African American history.
This is a free event.
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).
Dr. Glen Anthony Harris is a history professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. In April 2023, Lexington Books published his book Social Justice and Liberation Struggles: the Photojournalistic and Public Relations Career of Alexander McAllister Rivera Junior.