The Pursuit of Freedom in a “Free” State: The Emancipation Proclamation’s Significance to African Americans in Indiana
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Oct 5, 2023 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites
650 West Washington Street
Details
2023 R. Gerald McMurtry Lecture
Edna Greene Medford, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Howard University
The Pursuit of Freedom in a “Free” State: The Emancipation Proclamation’s Significance to African Americans in Indiana
Dr. Edna Greene Medford is professor emeritus and the former chairperson of the department of history at Howard University, specializing in slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her books include Lincoln and Emancipation (2015) and The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (co-authored with Harold Holzer and Frank Williams, 2006). She also edited Historical Perspectives of the African Burial Ground: New York Blacks and the Diaspora. Medford is currently working on a book about William Trail of Henry County, Ind., whose four sons served with the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.
The McMurtry Lecture is supported by the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana.
