CANCELLED!!! Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole: 2005 St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole is the 14th president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her career as a college and university professor and administrator spans over three decades. Dr. Cole made history in 1987 by becoming the first African American woman to serve as president of Spelman College. Dr. Cole is President emerita of Spelman College and Professor emerita of Emory University from which she retired as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Woman's Studies and African American Studies.

The annual St. Clair Drake Lecture is dedicated to the memory of Professor St. Clair Drake, renowned African American anthropologist and educator. He joined the Department of Anthropology at Stanford in 1969 and was the founding Director of the AAAS program. His illustrious, scholarly career is framed by the classic books, Black Metropolis (1945), and Black Folk Here and There (two vols. 1987-90). St. Clair died in 1990.