“African American Intellectual Thought” is the name a symposium on Saturday, March 27, at California State University, Fresno.

The symposium, third in a series, will begin at 9 a.m. in the Industrial Technology Building, room 101.

A no-host luncheon will follow at noon at the Cattle Rustlers restaurant, 401 Clovis

Ave. in Clovis, followed by a workshop with the lecture panel from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. A dinner reception will follow at Sam’s Bar-B-Q, located on the northeast corner of Shaw and Marks avenues.

A panel of history professors from throughout California will address the topic “African American Women Confront the West.” Fresno State lecturer Mary Coomes present the introduction. The panelists and their topics are:

Susan Bragg of University of Washington, “Anxious Foot Soldier: Sacramento’s Black Women and Education in 19th Century California.”

Shirley Ann Wilson Moore of California State University, Sacramento, “The West of African American Women, 1600-1800.”

Claytee White of the College of William and Mary, “Eight Dollars a Day & Working in the Shade: An Oral History of African American Migrant Women in the Las Vegas Gaming Industry.”

The commentator during the panel discussion will be John McClendon of Bates College.

The symposium is sponsored by the Fresno State Department of History, the College of Social Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Africana and American Indian Studies, California History Social Science Project, Links Program and Cattle Rustlers.

For more information contact symposium organizer Malik Simba, chair of the History Department, at 278-2153.

(Copy by University/ Relations Student-intern Jodie Mocciaro.)

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