The College of the Holy Cross is observing Black History Month in February with several events.
A collection of authentic slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia from the private museum of the Ragsdale family of Philadelphia will be on display Feb. 12 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Suites B/C of the Hogan Campus Center. The exhibit, titled “Lest We Forget: Traveling Museum of Black Slavery,” is sponsored by the Caribbean African Student Assembly, Africana Studies, and the Office of Multicultural Education.
The presentation includes a review of each aspect of slavery from capture to emancipation interspersed with little-known black history facts.
Joy Degruy Leary, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Portland State University, will give a talk titled "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing" on Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Suites B/C of the Hogan Campus Center. The event is sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Office of Multicultural Education.
During the presentation, which is based on and titled after her 2005 book, Leary will discuss how different levels of clinically induced and socially learned residual stress-related issues were passed along through generations due to slavery.
Photography from Lest We Forget: Traveling Museum of Black Slavery Web site
Two Events on Slavery Mark Black History Month at Holy Cross
Traveling museum of black slavery and talk on post-traumatic slave syndrome scheduled
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