Noted Author and Civil Rights Historian to Speak at YHC

Young Harris College is proud to bring to campus Dr. Robert A. Pratt as the featured speaker for the YHC annual tribute to Civil Rights Movement Leader Martin Luther King. Pratt, who is a professor of history and department chair at The University of Georgia, is a noted Civil Rights Historian. The lecture, open to the public and free of admission, will be held on January 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Susan B. Harris Chapel.

Pratt is the author of several articles and essays which have appeared in such publications as The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History, and Rutgers Law Journal, as well as many other publications. He is the author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89 (1992), named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, and We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (2002).

Pratt has been the recipient of several national fellowships and grants. These include a Danforth Foundation Fellowship (1980-1984), a Spencer Foundation Grant (1990), and a Brown Foundation Fellowship (1995). He teaches 20th century U. S. history and specializes in African-American and Southern history with an emphasis on school desegregation, the civil rights movement, and issues relating to race and ethnicity.