The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies
The Claremont Colleges
224-225 Steele Hall
Claremont, CA  91711
(909) 607-3056

2000-2001 Sojourner Truth Lecturer
Agnes Moreland Jackson

Truth’s Many Horizons:
In the Academy and in “the” Community
 

October 30, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Mary Pickford Auditorium,
Claremont McKenna College

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After retiring from The Claremont Colleges on June 30, 1997, Agnes Moreland Jackson will have completed 40 years of college and university teaching, the last twenty-eight of those in Claremont.  Professor Jackson is a founding faculty member of the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies and she served for several years as chair of the department.  Before coming to Claremont, Jackson taught at California State University, Los Angeles, Boston University; and Spelman College.  She has held three visiting faculty appointments, two at the Claremont School of Theology and one at her alma mater, the University of Redlands which on May 31, 1997 conferred upon her the degree Doctor of Humane Letters.  Her M .A. and Ph.D. were awarded respectively by the University of Washington and Columbia University.

Jackson’s specialties are composition, American literature and literature by Black Americans, which she began to study in 1965 immediately after the Watts rebellion.  Jackson’s efforts to make Black Studies curriculum permanent in the academy and in the cultural consciousness of our society are noteworthy.  Jackson has been active in lectures at colleges; papers at professional meetings; presentations at university symposia; churches and community based cultural organizations and intensive work with colleagues to structure the entire Black Studies curriculum at the Claremont Colleges.

Agnes Moreland Jackson has since published in several scholarly, cultural and pedagogical journals.   Her commentary on poet/essayist “June Jordan” was published in the Instructor’s Guide for The Health Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition (1994).  She also contributed a five thousand word entry on religion in African American literature, Oxford Companion to African Literature University Press, (1997).

Professor Jackson has lectured widely in the academy at all levels, before audiences in non-academic, cultural and social institutions and in the community for “the people.”  Please join us when Agnes Moreland Jackson delivers her speech entitled, Truth’s Many Horizon’s – In the Academy and in “the” Community.

For more information contact Kimberly D. Smith at IDBS (090) 607-3070 or http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/idbs