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Black History Month Lecture 2026

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Date & Time

Thu, 29 Oct 2026

17:00 - 18:30

Venue

Auditorium, Garden Quad, St John's College

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About this event

Professor Mia Bay gives a Black History Month lecture on the travel and activism of Addie B. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson.

Why you should come

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• Hear Mia Bay on Hunton & Johnson’s WWI YMCA work in France

• Explore 'Two Colored Women with the AEF' (1920) with Mia Bay

• See travel’s role in Black women’s activism, led by Mia Bay

Event Highlights

  • •Lecture by Paul Mellon Professor Mia Bay (University of Cambridge)
  • •Explores Addie B. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson’s WWI work in France
  • •Examines the 1920 book 'Two Colored Women with the AEF'
  • •Analyzes travel’s role in Black women’s activism and documentation

Speaker

Mia Bay

Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge

Programme

5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.

Lecture: 'The Call and the Answer: Travel and Literature in the Work of Addie B. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson'

Organized by: St John's College, Oxford

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