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An Upcoming Online Lecture at TU: "The Entangled History of Native and African Americans"

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published March 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM CST
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Photo of Claudio Saunt by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA

Our guest is Claudio Saunt, a professor of American History at the University of Georgia. He'll soon deliver the 2021 Cadenhead-Settle Memorial Lecture at the University of Tulsa. His talk -- which will be offered as a digital/livestream/online-only event on March 4th (starting at 7pm) at utulsa.edu/cadenhead-settle -- will explore how slavery and indigenous dispossession effectively built the Antebellum South. The lecture is titled "Sovereignty, Slavery, and the Road to Indian Territory: The Entangled History of Native and African Americans." More info is posted here.

StudioTulsaAmerican History19th-Century AmericaNative AmericanTU History DepartmentNative Americansrace relationsThe Civil WarAfrican-American LifeThe American South (Southern History)SlaveryRacismTrail of TearsAcademic Life and CultureHistorical ResearchAfrican-American StudiesIndian TerritoryIndian ReservationsBlack HistoryAmerican Indian History
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Rich Fisher
Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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