Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
When:
Thursday, Jul 18, 2019 6:30p -
8:00p
Where:
Waltham Public Library
735 Main St
Waltham, MA 02451
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://waltham.lib.ma.us/
What was it like growing up as an African American in the segregated south? Professor Nathaniel Whitaker teaches math at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and he grew up in Newport News, Virginia, the same town that Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures lived. Whitaker will talk about his personal experience of the Jim Crow laws, his connections to the women in Hidden Figures, and trace his family back to enslaved workers.