Avenali Lectures

Gerald Early, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1995-1996

“Martin Luther King and the Reinvention of Christian Leadership in the United States”
March 13, 1996

Gerald Early is Professor of English and of African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a noted essayist and American culture critic. Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is also editor of numerous volumes, including This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s (2003); The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader (2001); Miles Davis and American Culture (2001); The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998); and Body Language: Writers on Sport (1998). He served as a consultant on Ken Burns' documentary films on baseball and jazz, which both aired on PBS.

Other Events with Gerald Early

Follow-up Panel Discussion || March 14, 1996

with Clayborne Carson and Robert Middlekauf.

“The Charisma of Sport and Race” || March 15, 1996

Occasional Paper || A panel discussion with Early, Eric Solomon (Department of English), and Loïc Wacquant (Department of Sociology).