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By Hannah McCollum

Dwayne Mack, Ph.D., will present a lecture titled “Black Women in Spokane: Emerging from the Shadows of Jim and Jane Crow,” for African American History Month at Whitworth University.

This event is free and open to the public; it will be held in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. The presentation “will focus on the agency of African American women in the Inland Northwest’s largest city and explore the intersections of racism and sexism in the city during the 20th century.” Read Whitworth’s news release about the event here.

Mack is a professor and the Carter G. Woodson Chair of African American History at Berea College and author of “Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest.” He grew up in Brooklyn but decided to study Spokane’s black history for his Ph.D dissertation while at Washington State University. Although Spokane has a black population of only about two percent, it has produced its fair share of civil rights leaders.