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Ermitte Saint Jacques, assistant professor in the UWM Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Robert Smith, Harry G. John Professor in the Marquette University Department of History, presented the 54th Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture October 19, 2023 in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library.
A project that “examines how middle class and affluent African Americans in the Milwaukee metropolitan area manage the major social and economic problems confronting the region and the strategies they employ to overcome them” has been awarded the UWM Libraries’ 2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Grant and Lecture.
Their study, Saint Jacques wrote in her proposal, “challenges the Black narrative of Milwaukee that has focused on social pathology by providing an alternative representation that has largely remained invisible in both scholarship and media.”
The heart of the project is a collection of in-depth interviews that will become a public archive serving to change the narrative of Black Milwaukee and make the research accessible to the African American community in the city.
Established by Morris Fromkin’s family and supported by an endowment from Fromkin’s grandson, Daniel Soyer, the lecture series, dedicated to social justice, is the longest running lecture series on campus.
