Marcia Walker-McWilliams, on "The Black Metropolis Research Consortium: Fifteen Years of Documenting and Sharing Black Chicago's History”

February Evening Program

Co-sponsored with the Union League Club of Chicago

Marcia Walker-McWilliams

The presentation by Marcia Walker-McWilliams, Executive Director - Black Metropolis Research Consortium, will include a brief overview of the consortium's history and its major initiatives and programs. A significant portion of the presentation will engage the BMRC's Summer Short-term Fellowship program and efforts to provide opportunities for scholars of African American history and culture to produce works that engage and share new narratives of Black Chicago.