The UTK History Department cordially invites you to a reception honoring Professor Emeritus Cynthia Griggs Fleming for 32 years of service. Friday, February 6, 2015 (12 - 2pm) at the Black Cultural Center, 102-104. If you plan to attend the reception, kindly RSVP to Dr. Shannen Dee Williams ([email protected]) or Dr. Brandon Winford ([email protected]) by Mon., January 26, 2015. As a member of the pioneering generation of black women historians at the nation’s historically white colleges and universities, Dr. Cynthia Fleming made a career out of making history. In 1977, she became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in history from Duke University. After brief teaching stints at Texas Southern University and Morehouse College, Fleming joined the UTK faculty in 1982 as one of the first two black women faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences. She earned tenure in the history department in 1987 and spent the next ten years chairing the African-American studies program. Fleming was promoted to full professor in 2005 and retired from the faculty in May of 2014. During her 32-year tenure at UTK, Fleming—a native Detroiter and Knoxville College alumna—taught and mentored hundreds of students. She also planned and coordinated two national conferences commemorating the fortieth anniversaries of Freedom Summer and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 2004 and 2005 respectively. A distinguished historian of the civil rights movement and an oral history specialist, Fleming is the author of three books, including the seminal biography of legendary SNCC activist Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, and over twenty scholarly articles, book chapters, and reviews. She is also the founding co-editor of the book series, Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century, at the University Press of Kentucky. An avid horse rider and classic car collector, Fleming remains a model of grace and excellence in the academy, and her pioneering scholarship in black women’s history continues to inspire new generations of scholars and students alike.
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