CSEAS Spring Lecture Series: Stanley Arnold

Department of History

Northern Illinois University

Title: “Hey Soul Brother?: African American Troops and Vietnamese Civilians, 1959-1975”

Hybrid event: In-person Campus Life 100.

Virtual format registration required at https://niu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOGprzMtGddulMC7joRjZMlm5w9Zauqs  (After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.)

Professor Stanley Arnold's research interests are concentrated in two related areas, civil rights movement in the United States from 1920 to 1970 exclusive of the South and the intersection of race and sports in the United States. As a historian, one of his goals is to link the study of the past to the relevance of today. His work in these two principal fields serves to illuminate many aspects of the contemporary American experience.

His current book project, 'Beacons of their Race: African Americans and the Olympic Movement, 1896-1948', explores the impact of African Americans on the early Olympic Games. His first book, 'Building the Beloved Community: Philadelphia’s Interracial Civil Rights Movement and the Origins of Multiculturalism, 1930-1970' (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), examined the role of a locally-based interracial civil rights movement in an important northern metropolis.

All lectures free and open to the public.