Vernon Burton: Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court

Vernon Burton will visit the University of Georgia on Thursday, March 20^th to give a talk about the U.S. Supreme Court's historical relationship with race, the subject of his recent book Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. 

 

Burton is the inaugural Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and Professor of Pan-African Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and Computer Science at Clemson University. He is a prolific author and scholar with more than twenty authored or edited books and nearly three hundred articles in addition to his service as author or director of numerous digital humanities projects. Among his other books, The Age of Lincoln (2007) won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction, and In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985) received widespread scholarly praise for its innovative use of quantified and computerized methods and comprehensiveness. 

This event is sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, the UGA Law School, and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts.