Professor Kate Masur takes part in Free People of Color Lecture Series

UC Davis Law intellectual life continues during the pandemic. I was able today to participate in the Aoki Center-UC Davis Department of History Free People of Color Lecture Series presentation by Northwestern University Professor Kate Masur.

Professor Masur discussed a chapter of her new book about the civil rights movement in the Reconstruction era. It explores how and why residents of Massachusetts mobilized to protect the freedom of Black sailors who were imprisoned in Southern port cities. Along the way, it examines how antebellum Americans understood citizenship under the Constitution’s privileges and immunities clause (Article IV, section 2).

The historical perspective on the early civil rights movements was fascinating. King Hall is lucky to host such an informative and insightful lecture series.