African American opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act is Oct. 25 lecture
Released on 10/11/2004, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Monday, Oct. 25, 2004
WHERE: Warner Senate Chambers, Nebraska Capitol Building
African American opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 will be the topic of an Oct. 25 lecture at the Nebraska Capitol Building by Walter Rucker, a scholar of African American history at Ohio State University.
The lecture, "Unpopular Sovereignty: African American Reactions and Resistance to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act," will be from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Warner Senate Chambers. It is free and open to the public.
Rucker, who will soon publish a history of slave revolts in the United States, will explain how many African American leaders strongly criticized the law and viewed it as a step backward in the movement to abolish slavery.
The lecture is the third of a four-part series sponsored by the Nebraska Humanities Council and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Nebraska and the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Celebrating the Sesquicentennial, 1854-2004." For more information, please contact professors Ken Winkle or Margaret Jacobs at the UNL History Department, (402) 472-2414.
CONTACTS: Ken Winkle, Professor & Chair, History, (402) 472-2414; and
Margaret Jacobs, Assoc. Professor, History, (402) 472-2417