Mark your calendars and join us for a month full of events:
Virtual Event: “Knowledge Makes a Man Unfit to be a Slave” Virtual Talk
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 6:00pm
Join the Ernest J. Gaines Center and the Avery Research Institute for a lecture on the value of Black education and Black educational institutions. The guest speaker will be Aaisha Haykal.
“Knowledge Makes a Man Unfit to be a Slave” – Avery Normal Institute and the Power of Black Education
Feb. 16, 2022 | 6 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom | Free
Registration is required on the Ernest J. Gaines Center website. A Zoom link will be emailed to you before the event.
Contact Info: gainescenter@louisiana.edu
Aaisha Haykal is the Manager of Archival Services at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston (South Carolina). Her research areas are in community archives, Black religious history, digital humanities/projects, and Black literature. She has had leadership roles within the Society of American Archivists and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).