As part of this year’s convocation program, Professor Rita Roberts delivered remarks entitled “Not Yet Past: Reflections on Reconstruction and Contemporary America.” Roberts is a Professor of History and Africana Studies and the Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Chair in History and Biography at Scripps College. She is a central part of multiple programs at Scripps and across the Claremont Colleges, including the History Department, the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, and the American Studies Program, and she has taught in all three courses the Core Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Her courses engage students in the study of the history of the early United States, 19th and 20th century African American history, black intellectuals and the politics of race, and the Civil Rights Movement, among other topics. In the classroom and outside of it, she has been an important mentor to generations of students at Scripps and the Claremont Colleges.
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