Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 8th October 2026

Time: Doors open 7pm Lecture 7.30-9pm

Venue: Hunnyhill Room Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, PO30 2QR

Description: Dr Lee Sartain is Senior Lecturer in American History, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and winner of the Landry Prize for the Best Book on a Southern Topic (2007). An expert on US civil rights activism, he has worked extensively on the NAACP and lists his research interests as focussing on the African American experience in the twentieth century civil rights struggle in the United States. His talk will explore ideas of Black leadership within the American dream, from the 1950s to the 1980s, and the movements that grew during this period from Martin Luther King to Black Power to the Rainbow Coalition with Jesse Jackson.

Price: Talks free to Associate branch members, National HA members and Students, visitors £3.

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Lecturer: Dr Lee Sartain

Region: South-East England

Branch: Isle of Wight