BGSU Firelands, in partnership with The NAACP Sandusky Unit, is proud to welcome Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries. Dr. Jeffries is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University where he teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement.

Dr. Jeffries has worked on several public history projects. From 2010 to 2014, he was the lead historian and primary scriptwriter for the $27 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, the site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He hosts the podcast “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery,” a production of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance Project. Dr. Jeffries has also contributed to several documentary film projects, including the Emmy nominated PBS documentary Black America Since MLK, as a featured on-camera scholar.

Event Logistics:

If you are joining in-person, please receive your FREE ticket here, select "Firelands Campus" from "View Events by Department" dropdown. Then select "Get Tickets" under the Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries event.

For parking, we recommend Lot H, directly to the left off of University Drive, and nearest to the Cedar Point Center.

If you are joining virtually, please RSVP here.

For questions regarding this event, please contact (419) 372-0621 or email fireactivities@bgsu.edu