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Annual WC History Lecture to Present ‘Black Farmers, the Rural South and the Age of Development’

Professor Alec Hickmott Is on the Faculty at Amherst College Wilmington College will present a Black History Month program highlighting the unique dynamic of African American farmers in southern United States Tuesday (Feb. 25), at 7:30 p.m., in the T. Canby Jones Meetinghouse, Boyd Cultural Arts Center. PICTIRED: Professor Alec Hickmott Alec Hickmott, of Amherst College will speak on "Black Farmers, the Rural South, and the Age of Development" at this year's annual Larry and Lenna Mae Gara History Lecture sponsored by the Colonial Dames of America. This year will mark the first lecture series since the passing of Larry Gara, emeritus professor of history, late last year. The departments of History and Religion & Philosophy are co-hosting a period for fellowship and refreshments in commemoration of Gara's life and work prior to the lecture, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Hickmott, visiting assistant professor of black studies and history at the Massachusetts college, is the author of Black Land, Black Capital: Rural Development in the Shadows of the Sunbelt South, 1969-1976, winner of the Jack Temple Kirby Prize in Southern Agricultural and Environmental History. He also authored “Brothers, Come North”: The Rural South and the Political Imaginary of New Negro Radicalism, 1917-1923, winner of the Charles Schmitt Prize in Intellectual History. Hickmott has a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He teaches courses in African American History and Black Studies at Amherst.