McDaniels to Speak on African-American Archives, Reconstruction

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 14, 2016) — Pellom McDaniels III will present a mini-exhibition and give a talk titled “What Must Be Remembered: African Americans, Archives and the Era of Reconstruction” 2 p.m. Friday, April 15, in the Great Hall of Margaret I. King Library. This event, presented by University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, is free and open to the public.

McDaniels, a former professional football player, currently serves as the faculty curator of African American Collections at the Stuart A. Rose Library and assistant professor of African American studies at Emory University, where he received his doctoral degree. His scholarly interests include African Americans and World War I, 19th and 20th century notions of black masculinity, African Americans and the intersection of sports and civil rights, and the politics of representation in African-American art. McDaniels is the author of “The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy,” which was published by the University Press of Kentucky.

This talk is being presented in conjunction with programming from LEXengaged Living Learning Program, who used McDaniels' book to create lessons on Lexington's East End for William Wells Brown Elementary School.

UK Special Collections Research Center is home to UK Libraries' collection of rare books, Kentuckiana, the Archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the King Library Press, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center and the Bert T. Combs Appalachian collection. The mission of the Special Collections Research Center is to locate and preserve materials documenting the social, cultural, economic and political history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The University Press of Kentucky is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, representing a consortium that includes all of the state universities, five private colleges, and two historical societies. The press’s editorial program focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Offices for the administrative, editorial, production, and marketing departments of the press are found at the UK, which provides financial support toward the operating expenses of the publishing operation through the UK Libraries.

For more information about this event, contact Education Archivist Matthew Strandmark at mstrandmark@uky.edu. 

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