6:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Reception
6:30 - 7:45 p.m. | Presentation and Conversation
Williams Club
15 West 43rd St
New York, NY 10036
Cost: Free for club members; $15 for guests.
Amherst alumni can become Williams Club members.
In his 2016 book, The Making of a Racist, Williams College graduate and Professor of History, Charles Dew, shares the story of his childhood, growing up in the Jim Crow South. In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South—and particularly its history of slavery—turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. At this event, Dew will be speaking about the book and his life, and will be interviewed by former National Urban League President & Amherst alumnus, Hugh Price '63.
Charles B. Dew
Charles B. Dew teaches the history of the South and the Civil War and Reconstruction at Williams College, where he is Ephraim Williams Professor of American History. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, he graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia and Williams College prior to completing his Ph.D. degree at the Johns Hopkins University under the direction of C. Vann Woodward. He is the author of four books: Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works; Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge; Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War; and The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade. Dr. Dew graduated from Williams College in 1958.
Hugh B. Price '63
Hugh B. Price '63 served as President & CEO of the National Urban League from 1994 until 2003. He was the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University from 2008-2013. His memoir—This African-American Life—will be published Spring 2017. Currently he serves on the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. Mr. Price graduated from Amherst College in 1963.
Questions? Please contact Dale Riehl at dale@williamsclub.org.